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Introducing RCPO

 
David Green QC Director of the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office explains the role of this new government department
 
The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) is just six months old and not yet a household name even in Whitehall. It is in fact a major prosecuting authority in both the Crown Court and magistrates' courts second only to the Crown Prosecution Service in the number of cases it handles.
 
RCPO was launched on 18 April 2005 under the provisions of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005. It is a fully independent department entirely separate from the new Whitehall department Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. I am the Director and work under the superintendence of the Attorney General — on the same...

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