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Article: Inquiry condemns CPS as racist
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2001
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THE CROWN Prosecution Service (CPS) is a racist institution, a
damning report into the organisation will tell ministers and the
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) next week.
Its findings, based on investigations into a series of successful
race claims brought by lawyers employed by the CPS, is expected to
trigger a full inquiry by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE).
The report will also undermine the CPS's integrity, because the
organisation is responsible for bringing all race crime prosecutions
in England and Wales. Institutional racism at the CPS was first
alleged in a preliminary report by a senior academic lawyer, Sylvia
Denman, published last May. In her final assessment, Ms ...