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What is the Surrey Criminal Justice Board?
Who is on the Board?
What does the Board aim to do?
What are the local priorities for the Board?
What are the targets for the Board?
How can you help?
What is the Surrey Criminal Justice Board?
A local body made up of chief officers from the main criminal justice agencies. They work together to provide a better criminal justice system in Surrey.
The local chief officers of:
- Surrey Police
- The Crown Prosecution Service
- Surrey Probation Area
- HM Courts Service
- Youth Justice Service
- HM Prison Service
- Legal Services Commission
What does the Board aim to do?
In line with Public Service Agreement (PSA) 24 the Board aims to:
- Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the CJS in bringing offences to justice
- Improve the public confidence in the fairness and effectiveness of the CJS
- Improve victim and witness satisfaction with the CJS
- Understand and address race disproportionality at key stages in the CJS
- Recover criminal assets
What are the local priorities for the Board?
- To improve local services to victims and witnesses by making the process as easy as possible for them, and to encourage more victims and witnesses to come forward.
- To target persistent, prolific and potentially dangerous offenders in Surrey.
- To extend upon the prolific and priority offender work in order to prioritise the reducing reoffending agenda.
- To establish multi-agency, joined up approach to deter young offenders away from criminality. The scheme assesses those young people posing the highest risk of causing serious harm to others or who are at the greatest risk of re-offending and works to deter them away from criminality.
- To increase the number of domestic violence cases that are prosecuted by ensuring an effective, quick and safe procedure is in place.
- To ensure the right charges are brought against offenders, and at the right time.
- To increase the number of court trials that proceed on the day they are listed.
- To increase the speed with which warrants are executed.
- To involve staff from all the criminal justice agencies in the Board’s work, to help ensure that the local criminal justice system gives high quality service.
- To find out what matters most to local people and to effectively engage with the local community, particularly black and minority ethnic communities and other minority groups.
Some very significant players in the criminal justice system fall outside of the Board membership, so it cannot deliver its’ targets and priorities on its own. Views from the wider community and other players in the criminal justice system will be crucial in order to deliver these targets, ensure the Board is aware of local concerns and that everyone involved in local criminal justice has a real input into the work that is being taken.
A consultative group has been put in place to enable the Board to seek regular two-way communication. If you are interested in joining, please let us know.