SYCJB Facts

The South Yorkshire Criminal Justice Board (SYCJB) was set up in April 2003 to oversee the Criminal Justice System in South Yorkshire.  The agencies that make up the board are South Yorkshire Police, Crown Prosecution Service, Her Majesty's Courts Service, National Probation Service, Prison Service, Youth Offending Teams, Victim Support and the Legal Services Commission.

How does the board serve the public?

The South Yorkshire Criminal Justice Board was created to:

  • Reduce crime and increase justice by responding better to the needs of victims and witnesses and by punishing and rehabilitating more offenders;
  • Communicate with and listen to all the communities we serve in order to be better informed of their needs;
  • Tackle crime using the expertise, energies and resources of everyone within the criminal justice system.
     

Strategic Principles

Local Criminal Justice Boards (LCJBs) are the principal drivers for the new Justice for All Public Service Agreement (PSA) 24, which was published in October 2007.  PSA 24 provides the focus for South Yorkshire over the next three years.  The Government's vision is for a CJS that puts victims at its heart and in which the public are confident and engaged.  It will be effective in deterring offenders and briging offences to justice through simple and efficient processes.  The four key strategic principles to deliver this vision are:

  1. Being effective in bringing offences to justice;
  2. Ensuring simple and efficient processes;
  3. Having the public confident and engaged with the CJS;
  4. Having victims needs at the heart of the CJS.

Our aims and priorities

In South Yorkshire, our aims and priorities over the next three years to meet this vision are to:

  • Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the CJS in bringing offences to justice;
  • Increase public confidence in the fairness and effectiveness of the CJS;
  • Increase victim and witness satisfaction with the police and the CJS as a whole;
  • Ensure consistent collection, analysis and use of good quality ethnicity data to identify and address unfair race disproportionality in the CJS;
  • Increase the recovery of criminal assets;
  • Improve compliance and enforcement of the orders of the court;
  • Improve the time from arrest to sentence for Persistent Young Offenders and;
  • Reducing re-offending and the crime strategy. 

 

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