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Our inspection programme

Each year, we work with our stakeholders to decide what inspections we will carry out and publish the resulting inspection programme in our annual business plan.

Our stakeholders include the Law Officers, the Attorney General and Solicitor General; senior members of the judiciary; academics; Members of Parliament; representatives of specialist groups, such as victim support groups; and the organisations we inspect.

Business Plan 2024 – 2025

HMCPSI Business Plan 2024-2025

Our inspection strategy 2021-2024

Inspection Strategy 2021-24

Other inspections

Sometimes we are asked to carry out inspections on short notice. Naturally, it is not possible to include these in our inspection programme, but we do build flexibility into the programme to try to make sure we can assist with short notice requests.

Current and upcoming inspections

8 reports

DA Follow-up Scope

In March 2023 HMCPSI published a report “The service from the CPS to victims of domestic abuse – a thematic inspection of the handling by the Crown Prosecution Service of domestic abuse cases in the magistrates’ courts”. HMPCSI will conduct a short follow up inspection to assess the extent to which these recommendations have been successfully implemented by the CPS.
Year:
2024

MOPAC Stalking Review

An intelligence gathering exercise to ascertain whether the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) made code compliant decisions and selected the most appropriate charges in the cases referred to them by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) that were the subject of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) review.
Year:
2024

National Referral Mechanism – Scope for a follow-up inspection

A follow-up inspection of the effectiveness of Crown Prosecution Service policy and guidance for the handling of cases involving the National Referral Mechanism.
Year:
2024

Rape Inspection

An inspection into whether implementation of the National Operating Model (NOM) for prosecuting rape has improved the consistency and quality of the CPS’s approach to providing early advice and pre-charge decisions in adult rape cases? Has the quality of early advice and pre-charge casework in adult rape cases improved
Year:
2024

An inspection of the quality of casework in the Service Prosecuting Authority

This inspection will examine the quality of legal decision making and casework in the SPA.
Year:
2024

HMCPSI Thematic Inspection of Individual Quality Assessments

Inspection of CPS Individual Quality Assessments (IQAs)
Year:
2024

Investigations and case building joint inspections

The work carried out by HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services over a number of years has shown that there is room to improve the standard of case building by police forces and CPS Areas.
Year:
2024

Area Inspection Programme Phase 2

This is a follow up inspection programme to the baseline inspection of CPS Areas published during 2021-22.
Year:
2024