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Quarterly performance figures for the Criminal Justice System published

24 March 2009

The figures, for the quarter to September 2008 and covering England and Wales, show:

• The effectiveness of the CJS in bringing serious sexual offences to justice has increased in the year to September 2008. The volume of offences brought to justice has risen 3% since 2007/08, while the volume of crime has fallen by 1% over the same period. Performance in bringing serious acquisitive offences to justice remains stable in relation to recorded crime and the level of crime continues to fall. The volume of serious violent offences brought to justice also remains stable, but data on the volume of recorded serious violent crime is not currently available.
• Public confidence that the CJS is fair was at 58% for the six months to September 2008, this is a statistically significant increase on the baseline of 56% for the six months ending March 2008. Public confidence that the CJS is effective was at 37% for the six months to September 2008, which is stable in comparison to the baseline of 37% for the six months ending March 2008.
• Victim Satisfaction with the police was 82.1% for the quarter up to September 2008, this is a statistically significant increase on the baseline of 81.1% for the year to March 2008.
• Delivery of the Minimum Data Set to LCJBs, part of the strategy for addressing racial disproportionality in the CJS, is progressing according to the planned roll-out.
• The value of assets recovered across England, Wales and Northern Ireland for the period April to September 2008 was £68.4 million. This incorporates confiscation, cash forfeitures, civil recovery and receipts from international recovery orders, of which confiscation orders accounts for around 60%. It does not include the compensation element of confiscation orders
• The amount of confiscation order monies, including compensation, collected across England and Wales for the period April to September 2008 was £44.9 million, which is 68% of the financial year to date target trajectory.
• New confiscation and restraint orders have been obtained such that
  • There were 2,373 confiscation orders obtained for the period April to September 2008, which is 107% of the financial year to date target trajectory.
  • The value of the confiscation orders obtained were £65.9 million, which is 121% of the financial year to date target trajectory.
  • There were 703 restraint orders April to September 2008, which is 182% of the financial year to date target trajectory.
• The total value of fines collected as a percentage of the value of fines imposed (excluding confiscation orders) across Local Criminal Justice Board areas was 87% for the financial year to date (April to September 2008). It is exceeding the 2008/09 target of 85%.
• The number of outstanding Failure To Appear (FTA) warrants has increased from 25,039 at end of March 2008 to 25,607 at end of September 2008. The target is 24,457 by the end of March 2009. The stock/flow ratio, calculated as the number of warrants outstanding at the end of the month divided by the average number of warrants received during the last three months, is 2.4. The target is a stock flow of 2.0 by 31 March 2009.
• The proportion of FTA warrants executed in a timely manner, between July and September 2008, for Category A warrants was 65% within 14 working days, for Category B warrants was 68% within 21 working days and for Category C warrants was 63% within 28 working days, against targets of 73%, 73% and 64% respectively.
• The percentage of community penalty breaches resolved within 25 working days for the period July to September 2008 was 62%, which is above the target level of 60%.
• This quarter there are no updates to the performance information for the efficiency of bringing offences to justice, because this is reviewed annually. Performance for Victim and Witness Satisfaction with the CJS will be published next quarter once we have obtained six months of monitoring data for comparison against the baseline.