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Northamptonshire Local Criminal Justice Board
Community Safety Awards
These awards are a local addition to the national Justice Awards. Nominees for the Community Safety and the Justice Awards be invited to an event to be held in the summer. At the event winners will be announced and all nominees will receive a certificate of achievement
Awards are invited in the following INDIVIDUAL categories
1. Outstanding contribution to community safety
The winner should have worked within their community to make the it a demonstrably safer place to live and work.
2. Outstanding contribution to improving a locality
The winner through exceptional work will have reduced anti social or criminal activity within a geographical area.
3. Outstanding contribution to improving Community Cohesion
The winner will through innovative or exceptional work have helped to develop, new and existing, cohesive communities.
Awards are invited in the following TEAM categories
1. Outstanding contribution to community safety
The winning team should have worked within their community to make the it a demonstrably safer place to live and work.
2. Outstanding contribution to improving a locality
The winning team through exceptional work will have reduced anti social or criminal activity within a geographical area.
3. Outstanding contribution to improving Community Cohesion The winning team will through innovative or exceptional work have helped to develop, new and existing, cohesive communities.
Down load an application to nominate a TEAM here
Down load an application to nominate an INDIVIDUAL here
Across The Board Issue 6
The latest news letter is now available
Rye Hill Prison has a new member of staff with a nose for trouble.
Drugs can find their way into prisons through a number of routes, carried by visitors, thrown over the walls or sent through the post but at Rye Hill Springer Spaniel Maggie has her nose to the ground to sniff out illegal drugs.
Maggie joined the prison in November last year and began an intensive training programme with her handler Rob Dann who has been based at Rye Hill for 3 ½ years.
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New Pledge for Domestic Violence Victims
A new approach to dealing with victims of domestic violence has been unveiled for Northamptonshire. Agencies from across the Justice System, making up the Local Criminal Justice Board, have pledged that from now on, a domestic violence case will go from arrest to sentence in just 75 days.
CJSSS. Simple, Speedy, Summary Justice 
A new project to iron out inefficiencies in the Charge and Court processes has been rolled out across Northamptonshire. Criminal Justice: Simple, Speedy, Summary has reduced the time taken from charge to trial and will ensure cases progress as quickly as possible.
The process is now working well in all courts in the County. The Northampton Local Implementation Team headed by Baah Opong (pictured right) has worked hard to devise a scheme based in the best practice available, with co-operation and a commitment from all agencies.
The average number of days to complete a trial previously was 87 this has now fallen to 31.