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HMCPSI has a statutory duty to independently inspect the work of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Our work is fundamental to improving the criminal justice system and help maintain public trust.

Published: 08 April 2024

The People Strategy has been developed to support the strategic objectives, mission and values of HMCPSI and sets out, at a high level, what we will do to support those who work for us, will ensure that we can recruit the best and have a clear plan for development and inclusivity.

Published: 21 March 2024

HMCPSI Annual Report 2021-22 (623 kB) HMCPSI has published its annual report for 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022. This covers all the inspection activity carried out over this period.

Published: 13 December 2022

HMCPSI Business plan 2022-23 (288 kB) Our annual business plan sets out the work we expect to do this year, along with some background on how we chose certain topics as priorities. This year’s business plan features a full programme of thematic inspections and the beginning of the follow-up phase of our CPS Area inspection […]

Published: 18 July 2022

The People Strategy has been developed to support the strategic objectives, mission and values of HMCPSI and sets out, at a high level, what we will do to support those who work for us, will ensure that we can recruit the best and have a clear plan for development and inclusivity. People Strategy 2021 – […]

Published: 21 October 2021

HMCPSI_Business plan 2021-22 (314 kB) Our annual business plan sets out the work we expect to do this year, along with some background on how we chose certain topics as priorities. This year’s business plan features some limited thematic inspections and a new form of Crown Prosecution Service Area inspection focusing on the quality of […]

Published: 29 April 2021

HMCPSI has today published its Inspection Handbook. The handbook explains the principles and methodology used by Inspectors when conducting an inspection, from the planning stage through to the publication of the final report. HMCPSI has published this handbook so that an informative and transparent guide to the inspection process is available to the organisations we […]

Published: 01 February 2021

HMCPSI Chief Inspector’s Annual Report 2019-20 (660 kB) This report covers our inspection activity for the year 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020. During this period, we completed our Area Assurance Programme of inspections and published a final composite report, bringing together findings from the 14 individual Area reports and setting out the national […]

Published: 14 July 2020

Business plan 2020-21 (566 kB) Our annual business plan sets out the work we expect to do this year, along with some background on how we chose certain topics as priorities. This year’s business plan features thematically based inspections and introduces a new form of CPS Area inspection. Because of the coronavirus, we are initially […]

Published: 03 April 2020

‘In line with all Civil Service departments HMCPSI completes the annual Civil Service People Survey, 2019 full results are below in the attached document. The scores set out below show the headline scores for the nine themes included in the survey. We also have set out our overall engagement score and completion rate. HMCPSI are […]

Published: 26 March 2020