Campaign to stamp out racism in the CPS 

   The Director of Public Prosecutions and his entire staff
   are to be assessed for racial prejudice in a campaign to
   stamp out such practice in the Crown Prosecution
   Service (CPS). 

   The move follows a damning report by an independent
   investigator and continued monitoring of the CPS by the
   Commission for Racial Equality. An interim report
   published by Sylvia Denman concluded that there was a
   real problem with race discrimination at the CPS. The
   report's findings followed a series of successful race
   discrimination cases taken against the CPS, and a
   decision by the commission to launch its own
   investigation into the treatment of CPS staff. 

   David Calvert-Smith QC, the head of the CPS and the
   country's most senior prosecutor, will attend a two-day
   training course in March at which he and colleagues will
   be asked to respond to a set of racist scenarios played
   out by actors. 

   Rohan Collier, the head of equality and diversity at the
   CPS, said the principal aim behind the initiative was to
   end racial and other forms of discrimination in the
   organisation. She said the training was part of the
   service's response to the inquiry into the murder of
   Stephen Lawrence, adding that it was needed because
   the "subtly of institutional racism" was much harder to
   understand than overt racism. 

   "I'm not sure they [the CPS] have really been concerned
   about what the community has got to say about race, so
   there needs to be a cultural change," she said. All CPS
   staff, including Mr Calvert-Smith, would have to attend
   either a one-day or two-day course, depending on
   seniority. The first sessions began this month but training
   will not be completed until summer 2002. 

   In her report Ms Denman said "barriers to recruitment
   of ethnic minority staff operate in some CPS areas".

   By Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent
   29 January 2001

   From "The Independent" an English broadsheet 

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   "Perceptions" note:

   The CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) is composed of LAWYERS,
   (as is major part of British Parliament and Gov't).

   Are we surprised to hear they are elitist, racist and corrupt?

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