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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is committed to tackling disability hate crime
and is prosecuting, and convicting, more defendants for disability hate crimes than
ever before. In 2015/16, the CPS completed 941 disability hate crime prosecutions,
an increase from 666 the previous year and the conviction rate has remained steady
at 75%.</p><p>The CPS delivered mandatory face to face disability hate crime training
between September 2015 and January 2016 to support prosecutors to more effectively
deal with disability hate crime cases.</p>
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