Northern Ireland written question – answered at on 13 June 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average cost was of a prosecution within the former system of police prosecutions by Central Process Offices in each of the three years prior to the establishment of the Public Prosecution Service.
It is not possible to calculate the total average cost of a prosecution from start to finish—various agencies are involved at different stages of the process and no central figures are compiled. The PSNI do hold information on the average cost to the Central Process Offices of preparing a file for prosecution, although this represents only one part of the total prosecution costs. The Public Prosecution Service was established in 2005; therefore the following figures relate to the preceding three years, 2002-04:
2002: £171.40 per case;
2003: £150.75 per case;
2004: £139.09 per case.
Average cost per case over three years: £153.74 per case.
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