Director of Public Prosecutions

British  

noun

1.  DPP.  (in Britain) an official who, as head of the Crown Prosecution Service, is responsible for conducting all criminal prosecutions initiated by the police

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Example Sentences

Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson, who is the most senior prosecutor in England and Wales, said the CPS had tried to obtain further evidence from the government "over many months" and that witness statements did not meet the threshold to prosecute.

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Director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson has said the case could not progress because the government's witness, deputy national security adviser Matt Collins, would not explicitly say China was an active threat to national security at the time of the alleged offences.

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After weeks of pressure, Parkinson, who is the head of the CPS and director of public prosecutions, has now written a long letter to the national security strategy committee, ahead of appearing before it on Monday.

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Among those giving evidence will be Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions; Matt Collins, the deputy national security adviser; Richard Hermer, the attorney general; Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime minister and Sir Chris Wormald, the cabinet secretary.

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The attorney general is responsible for overseeing the Director of Public Prosecutions and Lord Hermer is likely to be asked how far that oversight goes and whether he should have been aware that the CPS was finding it difficult to secure the necessary evidence.

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