Statistics
Statutory Functions
The Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 (Cth) empowers the Director to exercise a range of statutory functions and powers, including to:
- discontinue a prosecution;
- take over a prosecution instigated by another person;
- grant an indemnity;
- institute a proceeding on ex officio indictment; and
- consent to conspiracy proceedings
CDPP statutory function statistics for 2023-2024
CDPP statutory function statistics for 2022-2023
Performance Indicators
Each year the CDPP reports against the following performance indicators:
- Prosecutions resulting in a conviction.
- Defendants in defended summary hearings resulting in conviction.
- Defendants in defended committals resulting in a committal order.
- Defendants tried on indictment and convicted.
- Prosecution sentence appeals in summary prosecutions upheld.
- Prosecution sentence appeals in a prosecution on indictment upheld.
CDPP performance indicators for 2023-2024
CDPP performance indicators for 2022-2023
Prosecution Statistics
The CDPP also reports on the following statistics:
- Outcomes of successful prosecutions.
- Summary prosecutions.
- Committals.
- Prosecutions on indictment.
- Prosecution appeals against sentence.
- Defence appeals.