ACT Director of Public Prosections says she may have to turn away some cases if funding not increased

a year ago by tau to c/canberra

The ACT Director of Public Prosecutions says her office does not have enough funding to deal with an increasing annual case load of more than 23,000 charges.

he ACT Director of Public Prosecutions says she fears her office will have to start turning away cases due to the sheer volume of them.

She has called for more government funding to better support the office, and says sexual and family violence offences have risen exponentially in recent years.

The ACT government has acknowledged the pressure on the DPP and says the attorney-general has committed to ongoing engagement on the issue.

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