Interview with Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions
The Law Show
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The History of the CPS
Do the police consult you early enough, or do they just carry on investigating at their own pace and then send the papers to you several months down the road? A combination of that, and we are working with the police colleagues to make sure that we can give advice as early as possible. We have had pilots, for example, in Nottingham and Suffolk, where we have put a prosecutor into the police station with their investigators dealing with rape and serosexual assault. But this should have changed 30 years ago. This was why the CPS was set up. The whole point of it was that you got involved in an early stage. You advised the police. They didn't pursue a line of investigation which
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