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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) recognises the serious impact hate crimes have
on peoples’ lives and will always seek to prosecute where there is sufficient evidence
to do so, regardless of the offence, or how it is committed. In 2021/22, the proportion
of successful outcomes in religiously aggravated hate crime with an announced and
recorded sentence uplift was 79.8%.</p><p> </p><p>Each CPS Area has a Deputy Chief
Crown Prosecutor as a strategic hate crime lead and a network of dedicated Hate Crime
Coordinators operates across all 14 CPS Areas, providing their expertise on matters
relating to hate crime and acting as a local point of contact for all external partner
agencies.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the CPS has created a hate crime External Consultation
Group, which is responsible for providing a community perspective on CPS activity,
providing an important check and balance in respect of CPS casework quality, and includes
representatives from Tell MAMA and the Community Security Trust (CST).</p><p> </p><p>The
CPS also sits on the cross-government working groups on anti-Muslim Hatred and on
Antisemitism.</p>
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