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Commonwealth Prosecution Service

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Government Organisation F-220121105

The Commonwealth Prosecution Service is a constituent organisation of the Parliament of Law.

❊ EFF 01 Jan 01
Registry CPL-05 Reg 05 of 09
Headquarters Oslola Prosecution House
Scale 22 offices
13,070 staff
Commonwealth Prosecution Service
Independent body of the Parliament of Law
Employees 13,070
Service Commonwealth Legal Service

The Commonwealth Prosecution Service (CPS) charges and prosecutes crimes in the Commonwealth. Correction in the Commonwealth is through labour and penitence rather than fines, and so most of its cases end in a work order served in the convict’s own municipality. The Service conducts this process in the republic courts, and also receives charges from the Commonwealth Police Service as a prosecuting authority.

The Service may prosecute on behalf of the commons, mostly for hoarding and structuring. It also employs a Frauds Office in Karu to prosecute stock fraud. The Service is also partly responsible for the Prosecution Policy, a short booklet taught to constables at the Commonwealth Police College.

About 60,000 cases are charged in an ordinary year, and most are heard by a republic magistrate in a single sitting. Since every arrested person must be brought before a court within 48 hours under Section 26 of the Civil Rights, most charges are decided by a prosecutor on the day of the arrest. Provisional Acts with serious criminal penalties cannot be enforced without the prior approval of the Constitutional Tribunal under the Firming Laws, and the Service does not charge under them until the Tribunal has ruled.

The Service is led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, who is appointed by the Mandatory Ecclesia for a fixed term. Its prosecutors are officers of the prosecution branch of the Commonwealth Legal Service, and the Frauds Office is regarded as one of the hardest postings in it.

Departments 5 departments, 22 offices, 13,070 staff

General Headquarters

1,090

Direction of the body; parliamentary business, legal advice, press and staff.

  • Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

  • Parliamentary Branch

  • Press Office

  • Establishments Office

  • Recruitment Office

Department of Criminal Prosecutions

4,120

Prosecution of federal offences.

  • Charges Office

  • Republics Office

    25 stations

  • Office of Appeals

  • Witnesses Office

  • Circuit Prosecutors Office

    10 stations

Department of Serious Crime

1,260

Organised crime, fraud and serious violence.

  • Office of Organised Crime

  • Frauds Office

  • Office of Serious Violence

  • Commons Prosecutions Office

Department of Prosecution Practice

920

Prosecution standards, guidance and training.

  • Standards Office

  • Guidance Office

  • Training Office

Service Branches

5,680

Regional prosecution offices.

  • Boreal Prosecution Area

    4 stations

  • Austral Prosecution Area

    4 stations

  • Occidental Prosecution Area

    4 stations

  • Oriental Prosecution Area

    4 stations
Constituents 5 bodies
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Prosecution policy and the Prosecution Policy booklet.
Republic Prosecution Offices
Prosecutors in the republic courts.
Federal Prosecution Division
Offences against federal law.
Serious Crimes Division
Organised crime and other serious offences.
Frauds Office
Stock fraud, hoarding and structuring, at Karu.