Referred to as: ID · Independent Directorate
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The DPP's role ended after consultation with the Independent Directorate (ID) about prosecution space, after which the DPP agreed to proceed but did not participate in the decision to provisionally withdraw the case.
“The DPP's role would have ended when they were doing consultation with the ID ... and the DPP would have agreed ... but the role of the DPP ended there.”
After the Independent Directorate made the decision to prosecute or prefer charges, they sent the charge sheet to the DPP, who responded by concurring with it, but did not get involved in the decision to remove the matter from court thereafter.
“Once the ID has made the decision to prosecute or to prefer the charges, that charge sheet was sent to the DPP, and the DPP wrote back and said yes, I concur ... We did not involve the DPP because the matter was already in the office of the NDPP ...”