Article: Inquiry condemns CPS as racist

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 ...

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