Achievements
Criminal Justice System Confidence Poll Results - September 2008
You can view the latest results for the poll currently running on the 'Home' and 'Polls' pages here.
Staffordshire brings more offences to justice
Staffordshire Criminal Justice Board welcomes the latest set of figures which show improved performance of the justice system across the county.
Chris Sims, Chair of Staffordshire Criminal Justice Board, said: “The agencies that make up our Board work together to ensure that the system is being rebalanced in favour of the law-abiding majority and we’re delighted that these new figures emphasise our progress.
“We’re now dealing more quickly with persistent young offenders, more fines are being enforced and more trials are being run in the Magistrates’ Courts and as a result, we are bringing more offences to justice. During the past twelve months we have exceeded our target by 9.2% (26,713) in bringing 29,172 offences to justice.
“But it doesn’t stop there; we’re making every effort to further improve our Criminal Justice System by undertaking detailed analyses of our work processes, tackling bureaucracy to find out where improvements can be made and identify our priorities for local improvements and reform.”
In Staffordshire the figures show:
- Reduction in time in bringing persistent young offenders to justice from 72 days to 52 days
- Reduction in our outstanding warrants by 17.4%, from 470 in June 2007 to 388 in September 2007
- Increase in the percentage of community penalty breaches dealt with in 25 days from 47% in June 2007 to 55% in September 2007
- Exceeded our target by 9.2% in the number of offences bought to justice
Across England and Wales latest performance shows that 1.44 million offences were brought to justice in the year to June 2007 which is well above the 1.25 million required by the Public Service Agreement and an increase of 44% since March 2002.
The latest set of CJS quarterly performance figures to September 2007 have been published and can be found at on the Performance page or by clicking here.
In addition overall crime in Staffordshire is down
Overall crime fell by over 13.79 per cent, violent crime was cut by 20.16 per cent, and almost £3 million was stripped from criminals in Staffordshire between April and December 2007.
Performance figures presented to Staffordshire Police Authority today show 68,660 crimes were recorded in the first nine months of the financial year – 10,980 fewer than in the same period in 2006.
Almost 83 per cent of people surveyed expressed overall satisfaction with the service they received from police.
Violent crime showed a significant overall fall of 20.16 per cent from 20,994 in 2006 to 16,762 in 2007. Sexual offences fell from 944 to 768 and racially or religiously aggravated offences dropped from 725 to 611.
House burglaries dropped by 12.42 per cent from 3,592 to 3,146. Vehicle thefts decreased by 11.49 per cent from 2,368 to 2,096 and thefts from vehicles fell 6.57 per cent from 5,613 to 5,244.
The force’s ongoing battle against serious and organised crime saw a major increase in money and property seized from offenders. Officers stripped criminals of £2,966,750 through cash forfeiture and confiscation orders.
Assistant Chief Constable Douglas Paxton said: “These excellent figures which show a significant drop in crime across the board are a tribute to Staffordshire’s police officers, staff and volunteers who work in co-operation with our partners and communities.
“Increasingly our focus will be on developing the way we tackle serious crime while providing an even better service to the people of Staffordshire, making their trust and confidence in us our number one priority.
“We have already made significant changes in cutting bureaucracy which was acknowledged by the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, in the House of
Commons last Thursday (7 February) during a debate of the Flanagan Review. This was just days after the Prime Minister visited our headquarters to hear about the headway we’ve been making in this and many other areas of our work.
“We will continue to make our service more community-centred. We don’t just want to see crime going down, we want people to feel confident in the police and in their neighbourhoods.”
Witness Satisfaction Survey - August 2008
The Witness and Victim Experience Survey is a national telephone survey that explores victims' and witnesses' experiences of the criminal justice system in England and Wales in cases that have resulted in criminal charges. For the latest results please see the Ministry of Justice website: www.justice.gov.uk/publications/witness-victim-experience-survey or download the results to date here (file size 0.85MB).
