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3.2.1 Other agencies

Parliament has given other bodies powers to investigate and prosecute certain crimes. These include:

Figure 13 Government agencies

An individual or organisation can bring a private prosecution. Some organisations, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), regularly investigate and bring private prosecutions. Private prosecutions by individuals are unusual: bringing a prosecution is costly and difficult.

Activity 7 Match the crime to the investigator/prosecutor

Allow 10 minutes

Match each crime to the agency who would investigate and prosecute it.

Breach of health and safety regulations

Health and Safety Executive

Causing unnecessary suffering to an animal

RSPCA

Insider-dealing in shares

Financial Conduct Agency

Breach of food hygiene regulations

Food Standards Agency

Conspiracy to commit a complex fraud

Serious Fraud Office

Using the following two lists, match each numbered item with the correct letter.

  1. Breach of health and safety regulations

  2. Causing unnecessary suffering to an animal

  3. Insider-dealing in shares

  4. Breach of food hygiene regulations

  5. Conspiracy to commit a complex fraud

  1. Health and Safety Executive

  2. RSPCA

  3. Financial Conduct Agency

  4. Food Standards Agency

  5. Serious Fraud Office

The correct answers are:
  • 1 =
  • 2 =
  • 3 =
  • 4 =
  • 5 =

Comment

This activity illustrates how these agencies bring prosecutions only for specific offences related to their particular responsibilities.

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