The Criminal Justice Update is produced weekly by the Legal Services Unit.

This publication is designed to keep you up to date with key developments within policing and the wider criminal justice system by presenting current information in a concise and user friendly format. The summaries contained within the document ensure you can update your knowledge of important issues as and when they happen. There are also web links contained within the document to follow should you require more detailed information on a particular subject.

This document will prove useful to all those who work within the policing family as well as those within the wider criminal justice sector.

Criminal Justice Update Highlights:

• Review of PACE
• Safe and Confident Neighbourhood Strategy
• Value for Money Policing Report
• Renewal of Control Order Legislation
• New Criminal Justice Measures Come into Force
• Terrorist Asset - Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Act 2010
• Understanding Overtime in the Police Service
• Globalisation has Changed Crime
• Jurors Do Not Understand Legal Advice from Judges
• Government to Target Cyber Crime

If you'd like to receive previous editions of the Criminal Justice Update please email the team.