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Heads of RASSO Units cascaded the training to all RASSO specialist prosecutors between May and November 2015, as outlined in the training section above. 60
Sexual offences (excluding rape) CPS records do not include data relating to pre-charge decisions regarding sexual offences (excluding rape), as the principal offence category of ‘sexual offences’, which includes rape and all sexual offences, is only allocated to cases at the conclusion of prosecution proceedings 111 . Data provided below relates to all defendants of sexual offences (excluding rape), with further details of gender where available 112 . 11,995 defendants were prosecuted in 2015-16 for sexual offences, excluding rape; a rise of 2,206 defendants (22.5%) from 9,789 in 2014-15; reaching the highest volume ever recorded. The proportion of CPS caseload attributed to sexual offences (excluding rape) rose from 1.5% 113 in 2014- 15 to 1.9% in 2015-16. Of the 11,995 defendants prosecuted, 11,658 defendants were male, 319 were female, and gender was not recorded for 18 defendants. Where the gender of the defendant was recorded, 97.3% of defendants were male and 2.7% female 114 , similar to levels recorded over the past six years. Graph 13: Sexual offences (excluding rape) caseload as % of total caseload 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 CPS NATIONAL 0.8% 0.9% 0.9% 1.0% 1.2% 1.5% 1.9% 111 CPS sexual offences data (excluding rape) is derived from the principal offence category ‘sexual offences’ by excluding the rape flagged defendants. There is no separate monitoring flag for ‘sexual offences’ that is applied, either when the CPS receives a request to make a pre-charge decision or at receipt of the charged case file. The principal offence is allocated only at the conclusion of a prosecution proceeding, based on the most serious offence the defendant is charged with at the time of finalisation. 112 Data on victims is extracted from the Witness Management Service which includes no record of the victims of sexual offences, other than rape, as the information is compiled only at defendant level. 113 Sexual offence caseload as a percentage of all CPS prosecutions 114 The figure is similar if calculated out of total, including unrecorded gender (97.2% and 2.7%). 61
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Page 24 and 25: Grooming and social media A Police
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Page 30 and 31: Domestic Abuse On 30 December 2015,
Page 32 and 33: Graph 7: DA prosecution and convict
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Page 38 and 39: Transforming Summary Justice Transf
Page 40 and 41: Domestic homicide: A man was foun
Page 42 and 43: Table 2a: Harassment and stalking o
Page 44 and 45: Stalking and harassment The CPS per
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Page 48 and 49: Rape In 2015-16 there was a rise in
Page 50 and 51: In 2015-16 88 the number of prosecu
Page 52 and 53: acquittals account for the majority
Page 54 and 55: Local good practice CPS North
Page 56 and 57: Consent Police, prosecutors, in-hou
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Page 72 and 73: Female Genital Mutilation The CPS p
Page 74 and 75: Child abuse All cases of child abus
Page 76 and 77: Victim data 127 , from the Witness
Page 78 and 79: National Child Sexual Abuse Review
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Page 82 and 83: Table 9: Completed human traffickin
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Page 86 and 87: Forced labour A factory owner who e
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Page 90 and 91: Pornography and obscenity In 2015-1
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Page 110 and 111: Homicide: Offences against the pers
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