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Welcome from Christopher Sims, Staffordshire Criminal Justice Board Chairman,
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.
As Board members we are 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 accelerated the timetable in bringing offences to justice so that there is, currently, only a 72 day period between an individual being charged with an alleged offence and, if guilty, being sentenced.
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.
Christopher Sims
Chairman of the Board
Chief Constable Staffordshire Police
September 2007
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