Promoting Confidence and Engagement
Have you ever wondered what goes on at a courthouse, how a magistrate makes sentencing decisions or how you can do your bit to cut crime in your area?
Merseyside Criminal Justice Board (CJB) has been helping to create opportunities for our residents to increase their understanding of the criminal justice service (CJS), and all the different agencies that are part of it. Providing communities with relevant information and engaging with all communities in a meaningful way, is a key priority for Merseyside CJB.
Through effective engagement we can increase public confidence in the CJS, showing that it is reflective of people’s views on crime and the priorities of communities. Increasing public confidence in the CJS is crucial to our goal of increasing participation.
We want more people to play an active role in creating safer communities. This means more members of the public are willing to report crime, to come forward as witnesses, to become a magistrate or look at the other interesting and fulfilling voluntary opportunities the CJS can offer.
Open days at courts and police stations, mock trials, sentencing events, community forums are some of the ways people are being engaged to think about the CJS and their perceptions of it.
Merseyside CJB has developed a programme of work to improve engagement work by our criminal justice agencies, with the aim of reaching our diverse communities.