APPENDIX 25
Memorandum submitted by the Crown Prosecution
Service
At the evidence session on the 21 November 2007,
the Director of Public Prosecutions agreed that the CPS Counter
Terrorism Division would check their records to see if they were
able to identify anyone upon whom they have advised pre charge
and having been released by the police without charge, has subsequently
been charged with any terrorist related offence. Unfortunately
the records that exist generally identify pre charge arrests by
operation name rather than individual suspects and it is impossible
to use those records to identify anyone in this category.
I have, however, checked the records myself
and have a good working knowledge of the casework of the Division;
using the records as an aide memoir, I do not believe that there
is anyone who fits into that category.
The CPS is unable to identify whether anyone
who has been released following a terrorist investigation has
been charged subsequently with a non terrorist offence and prosecuted
on a CPS Area, or to say whether someone who has been released
by the police without any CPS involvement has subsequently been
charged with any offence, terrorist or otherwise.
I hope the committee find this response useful.
Miss S J Hemming
Head of Counter Terrorism
6 December 2007
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