Cumbria And Lancashire Community Rehabilitation Company

We manage risk, change lives and improve communities, working hard to make Lancashire a safer place to live. We employ about 550 members of staff in 14 Offices, three Crown Courts and the county’s 11 magistrates courts and three approved premises.

We currently supervises 5900 offenders in the community with a
further 2200 currently serving prison sentences. Of the people we are
managing around half of them have employment and training needs.
Alcohol misuse remains a significant issue with 30% of our offenders
being assessed as having a link between their offending and alcohol.
This compares with 25% who have similar issues with drug misuse; drug
misuse related offending appears to be reducing. Across Lancashire
certain areas suffer from different types of offending. We have for some
time seen an increase in gang and gun activity in central Lancashire
whilst in east Lancashire violent extremism remains a significant issue.
The crime rates in Lancashire are reducing overall with Government
figures showing the level of actual re-offending being very close to the
predicted rate, however we are not satisfied with this and are striving
with the support of partners, especially the police, to reduce this further.
The main offences are burglary, criminal damage, violence against the
person with and without injury, theft and offences against vehicles, but
the important fact is that all of these offences have seen reductions over
the past five years.