The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has responded to a comment by Matthew Parris in his column in Saturday's Times that the criminal law, including the CPS, is "riddled with corruption". The DPP wrote to the Times and the letter was published in today's paper. It says:
No doubt Matthew Parris' column on Saturday, which included the tongue in cheek suggestion that the CPS is "riddled with corruption", was intended as a joke. But, with a moment's thought, he would have realised that it is deeply insulting to our dedicated, professional and hard working staff. Happily, wrong doing in the CPS is extremely rare indeed and in the isolated incidents where it may occur, it is dealt with very swiftly and very robustly.
