Commentary First Group of Parts – Discipline Part 5 – Investigation, Charging and Mode of Trial Section 117: Section 116: position where investigation is of multiple offences or offenders
254.This section applies where a case to which section 116 applies (one investigated by the service police or referred to them by another force) involves more than one incident or more than one suspect (or both).
255.The requirements of section 116 are to apply to each incident and each suspect as if they were separate cases. However the section also empowers the Secretary of State to provide by regulations for circumstances in which, where one case is referred to the DSP, linked cases must also be treated as referred to the DSP.