Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of the CJS
4. Improving effectiveness and efficiency - what has Derbyshire Criminal Justice Board achieved so far?
- Set up a multi-agency group to tackle community penalty enforcement where offenders fail to comply with the terms of their community order;
- Endeavour to ensure that warrants are executed swiftly when offenders fail to turn up at court;
- Consistently met our fine enforcement target with figures totalling 90%+ for the last financial year;
- Taken the cash out of crime: consistently met our target to ensure that orders are enforced and monies collected;
- Working on licence recall targets in order to ensure that offenders that need recalling to prison are arrested and returned to custody swiftly.
- More trials are going ahead when they should;
- Introduced Statutory Charging, where CPS lawyers work with the police before charge to ensure cases are robust;
- Deliver a premium service for Prolific and other Priority Offenders: catching, convicting and monitoring those who commit the most crime and cause the most harm to local communities;
- Implemented Conditional Cautioning, a scheme providing an alternative disposal to divert low level offenders from court;
- Introduced Operation Clean Slate – a scheme that allows offences that a defendant also admits to when charged with another similar offence to be taken into consideration;
- Implemented Criminal Justice ‘Simple, Speedy, Summary’ so improving the effectiveness of the magistrates’ court process;
- Established blitz courts to reduce the backlog of cases.