Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) has recommended that collaboration and communication between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland (PPS) “needs to improve to maximise the use of the Act provisions”.
The findings of its review assessing the effectiveness of legislation that created a new domestic abuse offence and aimed to better support victims and children affected by domestic abuse has been published on Wednesday (April 17) by CJI.
Inspectors looked at how the Department of Justice (DoJ), the PSNI, the PPS and the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service (NICTS) had implemented Part 1 of the Domestic Abuse and Civil Proceedings Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (the Act) since the legislation came into force on February 21, 2022.