Our Organisation
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was created by the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 to prosecute criminal cases investigated by the police in England and Wales.
Central Fraud Group
The CPS Central Fraud Group (CFG) brings together the expertise of prosecutors who have experience with every type of fraud. Based in centres in London, Manchester and York, this concentration of specialists allows us to successfully prosecute the most serious and complex cases.
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Counter Terrorism Division
The Counter Terrorism Division was created in order to provide a first-class Counter Terrorism prosecution service. Prosecuting these high profile cases enables CPS staff to demonstrate their skills at the highest levels and contribute to improving public confidence in the criminal justice system.
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International Division
The International Division is responsible for delivering the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) international strategy. This includes ensuring that the CPS adopts a targeted and strategic approach to overseas engagement, and that work performed by CPS overseas is joined up with that of colleagues, other government departments and international partners, in order to deliver value for money and effective use of CPS resources.
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Organised Crime Division
the Organised Crime Division deals with all cases that are investigated by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). It also deals with 'hi-tech' crime, confiscation and enforcement issues.
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Special Crime Division
The Special Crime Division is responsible for prosecuting and assisting the prosecution of a range of the most sensitive and specialised cases within the Service. Many of these are high profile and on occasion complex, and they often attract strong media interest.
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CPS Direct
Since our launch in 2003, we have established ourselves as a key part of the CPS, ensuring police officers from across England and Wales have access to round the clock charging decisions from the CPS.
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Headquarters
The CPS is a large organisation and is divided into different divisions. Find out about the different departments within the Crown Prosecution Service and how they are managed by headquarters.
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Our structure
The CPS is the largest law firm in the UK, dealing exclusively with criminal cases. Find out how the CPS is structured, who has responsibility for different areas of management and how we audit our performance.
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Procurement
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spends over 60 million a year on externally purchased goods and services, ranging from stationery, printing, reprographics and facilities contracts to more specialised service provision, for example, management consultancy and training and development.
The provision of these goods and services play a vital part in supporting the Department to meet its business objectives. It makes excellent economic sense, as well as meeting our obligations to Parliament and the public, to ensure that we obtain best value for money (VFM) from all our diverse purchases.
