The number of young people entering the youth justice system for the first time in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire has fallen, with the latest figures already better than the police and crime plan’s target.
There were 142 first-time entrants across the force area in the year to June 2026, down 10.7% on the previous year.
The figure was also 32.4% below the plan’s baseline period of April 2023 to March 2024, exceeding its ambition to reduce first-time entrants by 15% to fewer than 178.
The figures are included in the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Plan performance update to the end of June.
Nottingham city recorded 54 first-time entrants, a reduction of 19.4% on the previous year and 48.6% against the baseline.
In the county, there were 88 first-time entrants, down 4.3% year on year and 16.2% against the baseline.
Although the annual picture improved, the combined total was unchanged from the previous quarterly update.
The reduction concerns young people entering the youth justice system for the first time and does not establish that youth crime as a whole has fallen.
The report also identifies continuing challenges with reoffending. Separate figures for an earlier cohort, covering July 2023 to June 2024, show juvenile reoffending rates of 34.2% in the city and 31.4% in the county, both higher than the previous annual comparison.
Elsewhere, the update records increases in neighbourhood policing resources and the provision of victim support.
Budgeted neighbourhood officer strength rose by 17.9% over the year to 335.3 full-time equivalent posts. Police community support officer strength increased by 7% to 155.6 full-time equivalents, above the target of 150.
The proportion of survey respondents reporting that police were visible in their area improved by 2.9 percentage points to 34.2%, although it remained below the plan’s 42.6% target.
Victim support services delivered 20,631 interventions over the year, an increase of 38%. Satisfaction with that service stood at 98.9%.
That satisfaction figure relates specifically to victim support, rather than victims’ overall satisfaction with the police service.
