The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), College of Policing and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have unveiled a joint commitment to transform how they investigate, handle and prosecute domestic abuse to ensure victims are better supported, timeliness is improved and more offenders are brought to justice.
Taking a similar approach to the policing and CPS’ joint national action plan for rape, the three organisations are committing to working together to drive improvements in their response to domestic abuse by developing a national Domestic Abuse Joint Justice Plan (DA JJP).
Under the DA JJP, the organisations will work together from the earliest stage to build “robust, victim-centred and suspect-focused investigations and prosecutions”, which focus on the suspect’s actions before, during and after an alleged offence.