Finance

• • Overall funding fell by 19% taking inflation into account. Compares to a 31% increase in funding between 2000/2001 and 2010/11
  • Across England and Wales for 2018/19, 68% of funding received by police forces is set to come from central government, and 32% from local taxation
  • No police
  • People taking order
• Cuts in the CPS

  • Between 2010 - 2018 the CPS budget was cut one quarter, and this time
  • lead to 50% reduction CPS suffering
• Cuts in the CPS:

  • Result - CPS has been accused of downgrading charges so they prosecute them more quickly and cheaply through the Magistrates' court rather than the Crown court
  • Result in offenders getting lighter sentences because the Magistrates' powers of sentencing are more limited
• Cuts in the CPS:

  • Resources: Cost of a prison placed reduced by 15% in real terms between 2009 - 10 and 2019 - 20. The average annual overall cost of a person place in England and Wales in now £44,640
  • Growing inexperience = The proportion of staff with less than 5 years service is high and that with 10 or more years is declining
• Deaths and Drugs in prison

  • Estimated 1 in 3 people in prison are suffering from a serious drug addiction
  • 88 men died in prison between 2008 to 2016 as a result of drug related issues
• Deaths and Drugs in prison

  • A quarter of people (25%) report that it is easy to get drugs in their prison
  • This is down from 45% before the pandemic
  • 117 deaths in prison between June 2013 and Sept 2018. Where the person was known, or strongly suspected to have used or possessed psychoactive substances before their death
• Cuts in funding of the National Probation Service (NPS) and restructuring to form the probation service

  • Cuts to the probation service have also had a large impact on its ability to achieve social control
  • Some of its problems have arisen because the service was split into two in 2013 - with the NPS dealing with high risk offenders and the private community rehabilitation companies managing the low and medium risk offendres
• Cuts in funding of the National Probation service (NPS) and restructuring to form the probation service

  • Issues are a high caseload and a shortage of probation officers which means that appointments with probation officers are only 10 - 15 minutes long and have been described as a 'tick box exercise
  • 9 of the 13 CPS inspected between Dec 2016 and Mar 2018 by the Probation inspectors were rated negatively for their work reducing reoffending and protecting the public