Comparative Analysis of UK Public Service Agencies: Court and Police

This essay provides an overview of the UK public service, focusing on the roles of the Court and the Police. It defines public service, highlighting the importance of agencies like HMCTS, CPS, and HMPS in delivering criminal justice. The essay details the functions of the Court, including various court levels and associated agencies, emphasizing its role in delivering fair justice. It then explores the role of the Police, emphasizing their responsibilities in finding criminals and maintaining order. The essay compares the roles of both agencies, highlighting their interrelation and shared goal of delivering justice, while also acknowledging their distinct functions. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of continuous improvement in these agencies and their policies to effectively manage crime rates and maintain public safety. The essay refers to the significance of data collection and analysis, and the need for effective policies to ensure fair and efficient justice delivery in the UK.

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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Public service is defined as an service which is mainly offered by government and a
authorized body in order to provide benefit to individuals within a particular community and a
society (Crime Record in UK. 2018). It is also termed as a authorization of government
employees confide with administration of a country. Basically these services are provided by a
government to those individuals who living in its jurisdiction. Public service also termed as an
civil service and persons those who work to offer that service is known as public servants or civil
servants. These services is backbone of any country or a society and it is nearly hard to manage
these public affairs without having a well organised, effective and honest public servants.
There are different types of public services agencies those who are engage in the process
of delivering criminal justice. Police, Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Services (HMCTS),
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), National Probation Services (NPS), Her Majesty's Prison
Service (HMPS) are some of the agencies those who are offering criminal justice to individuals.
There are different types of roles and responsibilities rendered by these agencies that include,
providing essential services to civil citizens, implementation and assisting of government
projects and policies, identification of new region of societal concerns and designing the related
potential solutions in different ways in the form of various programmes and schemes. These
agencies perform their functions with the help of government resources effectively, efficiently
and economically. All the mentioned agencies offer their services in developmental and
transparent manner. Each and every public service departments play different types of roles and
responsibilities within provincial government (Moors, 2018). All these agencies effectively
engage in the process of delivering services in the province of United Kingdom. Two agencies
namely The Court and The Police delivering their justice as per according to law by having
individual set of delegated roles and set pattern. If talked about Court, these public agencies
effectively engage in the process of delivering true and fair justice to every individual within
UK. Within court premises each and every case details is discussed in order to deliver best
decision as to give justice to a person who has been attempted in crime. Supreme court, country
court, crown court, royal court, youth court and magistrate's court are some of the courts which is
mainly found in UK. In this supreme court is a top level court who holds the power to deliver
outcome. In addition to this, some of the certain associate agencies of Court is, The law officer,
Police etc.
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While in context of Police, it is a agency performing its basic functions within UK. Roles
and responsibilities holding by this public agency include, finding out the real culprit and give
justice to unconvicted individual in or to reduce overall rate of criminal percentage in a
significant manner. While in some of the cases, police are not authorised to take strict preceding
actions as it may go against the law(Tushnet, 2017). Power allotted to police agencies within UK
are given by Parliament. In terms of Police, this is that agencies in UK which have the duty to
find the right person who have attempted or done the criminal activities so that percentage of
total crime can be reduce significantly. It is not that easy job for police to find the actual criminal
because in most of the cases they are not allowed to take strict action against the criminal as it is
against the law. The main role of this body is to capture the criminal and after that hand over to
another agencies so that further action can be taken. Even in some of the minor criminal
activities police have the power to take action on their just to reduce the overall result. Police has
got the power from Parliament House and it has been very effective body to change the number
of crime in recent period of time and because of that local people feel safe to work in the
premises United Kingdom. The agency which plays the supportive role for Police are Court, the
law officers, Ministry of justice etc.
It can be easily seen that both agencies are inter related with each other because without
the help of each these both agencies cannot perform their duty which has been delegated by
Parliament. The major similarity between these both agencies is that they both are working for
the same purpose which is related with giving justice to the one who have done crime in there
life. Even they try that to find that what can be the best solution through which criminal activity
can be reduced. When it comes to finding the differences it is said that the role of police is just to
find the criminal where as court is required to declare the result on the basis of crime and facts
which has been presented by authorised body. It is end, it can be easily said that court and police
have to support each other for the effective outcome in future. It is very necessary that new
agencies are being formed so that activities which are being carried out to reduce the percentage
of crime can be implemented effectively. In the basis of crime rate it is found that government
have tried their best to bring new strategies through which it can be handled. It is not that easy
for these agencies to manage the work load that easily because it found that every time the level
of crime is different from the prevision one so that it is the responsibility of those agencies that
how plans and policies can be formed so that result can be changed . Although, it is seen that
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results are different from the previous one and because of that percentage of crime rate has
reduced. So, it can be easily said that these agencies are working effectively since the day of
incorporation.
Proper records and statistics are collected by police agencies in order to effectively
measure and compare actual outcome of past performance which was already been collected in
the past. When these agencies compare it is important for them to evaluate the effectiveness of
these policies as measure if they are important or not. As it will effectively help agencies to
conduct their new actions in best possible ways (Barkan and Whisner, 2015). This helps them to
further increase level of their performance and quality of their results. In addition to this, it will
effectively help appropriate agencies to deliver good and fair justice and plan for their future
plans in best effective manner. There are numerous ways with the help of which polices can be
formed but is is important to evaluate its effectiveness and appropriately check whether they are
well effective for general public. As these policies further help in governing decisions in best
effective way. With the help of data informations can be easily cross checked along with its
effectiveness. There are different types of measure with the help of which accurate statistics can
be accumulated. In addition to this, power that are delegated to agencies proves to be very
effective as they helps agencies to work in a free manner. Data and information accumulated by
government agencies depicts that they hold accurate and up to date facts.
One of the major reason of this data is effective accurateness which can further be
utilized for evaluating criminal records. In this one of the primary source of data collection is
data entry system with help of this method accurate and effective evidences can be found by
these agencies. Another important reason behind these evidence is formative reliability. In this
permissions are granted to only authorised agencies to use that data in order to reduces chances
of error.
CONCLUSION
As per the above mentioned report, it has been concluded that legal system contain
numerous form of advantages as it not allow individuals to take negative form of decisions in
adverse situation. There are different types of agencies performing their functions within UK that
include, Court, Police etc. both of these agencies contain same role which is mainly related to
offer fair justice.
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