Welcome from Mike Cunningham, 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.
More than 1,400 fewer crimes were recorded in Staffordshire between April and June 2010, compared to the same period last year.
The total number of offences dropped by almost seven per cent to 19,034. During the same three-month period in 2009 the total number of offences was 20,451.
Figures presented to Staffordshire Police Authority on 20 July, show serious acquisitive crime - which includes burglary, robbery and vehicle crime - committed in April, May and June fell to 2,339 from 3,080, a drop of 24 per cent, compared to the same period in 2009.
Business-related crime has also fallen to 2,176 from 2,523, a drop of almost 14 per cent.
The figures for the first quarter of 2010/11 also show a reduction in the number of violence with injury crimes recorded. Between April and June a total of 2,439 were recorded, compared to 2,636 in the same period in 2009 - a reduction of 7.5 per cent.
Dealing with anti-social behaviour (ASB) remains a top priority for the force and police authority. Staffordshire Police continues to work closely with local authorities and other partners to tackle ASB. Between April and June this year 89 per cent of people who called about ASB were satisfied with the overall service they received by the force, compared to 84.6 per cent during the same period last year.
A total of 88 per cent of people calling about crime between April and June this year were satisfied with the overall service provided by police, compared to 87.6 per cent last year.
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, keeping communities safe and we will continue to tackle the things that matter most to the communities we serve.
Please take time to have a look around the site and if any further questions arise please do not hesitate to contact us.
Mike Cunningham
Chair of the Board
& Chief Constable, Staffordshire Police
July 2010
Please click here to see the board's three-year strategy.
