By this week the ONS had referred 369 cases to the Crown Prosecution Service; of those, 157 prosecutions have been brought to court, with 120 resulting in convictions.
The report also notes that current laws surrounding how overdose emergency calls are responded to should be converted to "Good Samaritan Laws," which allow both witnesses and survivors of an overdose to contact emergency services without fear of prosecution for administering or being in possession of illicit substances.
"The Crown Prosecution Service has today authorized the Metropolitan Police to charge Leslie Cooper, 36, with the murder of Abdul Hadi Arwani," said Rob Davis of prosecution service's London homicide unit.
Banks in the US state of Minnesota - home to a large ethnic Somali community - have stopped money transfer services to Somalia, fearful of prosecution under US anti-terror laws.
For them, as for trafficked juveniles, arrest is the traditional conduit into services, and the threat of prosecution is the common method to compel compliance.
A second-best path to reform lies in the revision of prosecution services policy manuals.
Dr Steven Chase, people director for Thames Valley police, receives an OBE, as do Kim Considine, former head of the north-west Protected Persons Service; Sara Lewis, head of prosecutions at the Metropolitan police; and Danny Wilks, resourcing manager at West Yorkshire police.
August 1997 Jack Straw announces a full independent judicial inquiry into the handling by the police and Crown Prosecution Service of the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
For example, Logica, an IT company, said on January 2nd that it had won a 10-year contract worth £200m ($290m) to develop a new system for the Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales.
Portsmouth could face another potentially damaging scandal involving one of their Russian owners after the prosecution service of the Republic of Lithuania issued a press release on Wednesday to announce that one of the club's co-owners, Vladimir Antonov, is the subject of an international arrest warrant over allegations of serious fraud.
