Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 52
52
Deferred
Encourage greater cross-partnership working and earlier CPS involvement in modern slavery investigations.
Recommendation
The Government must take steps to encourage greater cross-partnership working between the Crown Prosecution Service, policing and the National Crime Agency. This should involve earlier involvement of the CPS in policing investigations. (Paragraph 158) Human trafficking 77
Government Response Summary
The government response outlines efforts to enhance 'evidence-led' investigations through the College of Policing curriculum, but it does not address the recommendation for greater cross-partnership working between the CPS, policing, and NCA, or earlier CPS involvement in investigations.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
52. There is a concerted effort to enhance proficiency in ‘evidence-led’ investigations and it is always advised that investigators build a prosecution case gathering evidence from a range of sources, without solely relying on victim testimony. The requirement for ‘evidence led’ investigations is covered fully in the modern slavery investigator training course on the College of Policing curriculum and is tested on students in the case study exercise.