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Welcome from Claire Lindley, newly appointed Chair of Staffordshire Criminal Justice Board.
Welcome to the web pages of the Staffordshire Criminal Justice Board. We hope you will find this site interesting and informative. Its main purpose is to keep you up to date on current issues within the criminal justice system (CJS) and to explain how local CJS organisations are working together to provide a more inclusive, efficient service for the people of Staffordshire.
I am delighted to have been appointed Chair and together with my fellow Board members am committed to bringing more criminals to justice, to ensuring victims and witnesses receive the service they expect and rightly deserve, and to raising public confidence in the CJS as it operates locally here in Staffordshire.
In its relatively short lifetime the Board has witnessed many major changes in the criminal justice system and we are working constantly to achieve newly set targets as well as improve on existing ones.
During the past twelve months, for example, we have achieved an 8% increase of community penalty breach proceedings being resolved within 25 days, from 59% to 67%, as at the end of December 2009.
We are especially concerned that members of local minority groups feel part of our work and have dedicated a significant amount of our resources to establishing dialogues with representatives from as many of those groups as possible so that all the important voices of Staffordshire's communities are heard and listened to.
The website is an important part of our strategy to ensure that everyone who lives and works in Staffordshire, or visits here, is kept up to date with the Board's ambitions and achievements and so feels more confident about the way the CJS operates as an effective partnership in reducing crime and keeping communities safe.
Please take time to have a look around the site and if any further questions arise please do not hesitate to contact us.
Claire Lindley
Chair of the Board
Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS Staffordshire
January 2010
Please click here to see the board's three-year strategy.
