Freedom of information request
Up until end of HO funding, 31st March 2025.
- The number of Immediate Justice disposals issued in your force area since the scheme’s introduction.
- The completion rate of these disposals (i.e., the proportion of cases where the requirements were fully carried out by the offender).
- Any available breakdown of completion rates by year, offence type, or demographic (if recorded).
- Any internal evaluations, reports, or summaries your force has produced on the effectiveness of Immediate Justice.
- Re-offending rates
- Did you continue any similar project after the funding ended?
Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner response
Each bullet point has been responded to separately as below:
- The number of Immediate Justice disposals issued in your force area since the scheme’s introduction.
- Response: 164
- The completion rate of these disposals (i.e., the proportion of cases where the requirements were fully carried out by the offender).
- Response – 45%
- Any available breakdown of completion rates by year, offence type, or demographic (if recorded)
- Response – please see tables below.
- Any internal evaluations, reports, or summaries your force has produced on the effectiveness of Immediate Justice.
- Response – there was no formal evaluation or report on the Immediate Justice Scheme
- Re-offending rates
- Response – Reoffending data was provided for 80 individuals referred to the Immediate Justice scheme; data was collected between Jan 2024 and March 2024.
Out of these individuals: - 63% completed the Immediate Justice scheme
- 37% did not complete Immediate Justice
- Of those who participated in Immediate Justice, 36% reoffended (up to March 2024)
- Of those who did not participate, 50% reoffended (up to March 2024)
- Response – Reoffending data was provided for 80 individuals referred to the Immediate Justice scheme; data was collected between Jan 2024 and March 2024.
- Did you continue any similar project after the funding ended?
- Response – no