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<p>Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) inspects the work
of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and reports to the Law Officers. The Code for
Crown Prosecutors (the Code) provides that it is the duty of prosecutors to make sure
that the right person is prosecuted for the right offence. Between 2016 and 2018 HMCPSI
inspected 12 of the 14 CPS Areas in England and Wales and found that in a very high
proportion of cases the CPS correctly applied the Code and that the charges proceeded
with were the correct ones. HMCPSI reported that in over 94.5% of the cases they inspected
the decision to charge complied with the Code; that measure relates to all the provisions
of the Code and not only whether any offence charged was the correct one.</p>
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