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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has taken a number of steps to improve its
prosecution of all strands of hate crime. Specifically they have delivered mandatory
face to face disability hate crime training for all prosecutors to deal more effectively
with disability hate crime cases.</p><p>As a result, the CPS is prosecuting, and convicting,
more defendants of disability hate crime than ever before. In 2015-16, the CPS completed
941 disability hate crime prosecutions, an increase of 275 on the previous year.</p><p>The
proportion of successfully completed prosecutions with an announced and recorded sentence
uplift increased to 11.9% from 5.4% the previous year.</p><p>The CPS will shortly
be publishing a public policy statement on disability hate crime and a Support Guide
for victims and witnesses with disabilities.</p>
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