Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2007-01-31
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0215032276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report examines the Department of Constitutional Affairs and Her Majesty's Courts Services on the payment of fines, how the speed of payment might be increased and how appropriate penalties might be set. It finds that the performance measure used by the DCA on the payment of fines is flawed because it creates an incentive to cancel fines and takes no account of the time taken to pay them. In 2005-5 almost a fifth of fines were cancelled. Also the offender has no incentive to pay promptly as enforcement charges are not passed on nor is interest charged on outstanding fines. Although the Department has taken steps to improve the information available to courts when setting penalties, the new measures have not been implemented consistently.
Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2006-05-25
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0102938016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fines are the most common sentence imposed by Magistrates' courts in England and Wales, covering a range of crimes including motoring offences, drug offences, criminal damage and TV licence evasion. In the year 2004-05, penalties totalling £352 million were imposed, with £75 million cancelled and £222 million collected. Following on from an earlier report (HCP 672, session 2001-02, ISBN 0102914508) published in 2002, the NAO has examined whether the changes made in practices and procedures have resulted in improvements to the enforcement and collections of fines. It is estimated that a 25 per cent reduction in the number of legally cancelled fines would result in potential savings of £6.9 million per year and prompter payment of fines would yield further annual savings of almost one million pounds. Although a series of measures have been introduced by the Department for Constitutional Affairs to improve the system, over two thirds of the cases examined required enforcement action before the offender made any payments. A number of recommendations for further improvements are made, including in relation to developing performance indicators; prompter collection of fines, including making payment facilities (including cash) available at each court; focusing staff resource allocation on the early stages of enforcement; and addressing IT problems caused by the delay of the Libra system
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1428944109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report summarizes the information presented in our December 14, 2001, briefing on OSM's collection of CFP debt. The briefing slides are in appendix I. We will report separately on our work on Customs and CMS. As discussed with your staff our objectives were to determine (1) the primary reasons for the low collection rates and significant write-offs of OSM's CFP debt, (2) whether adequate processes exist at OSM to collect CFP debt, and (3) what role, if any, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Treasury play in overseeing OSM's collection of CFP debt.
Author: Robert Burgin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780866563765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An effective guide to help librarians develop a more systematic and effective approach to dealing with overdues. The editors present statistical data on overdues, as well as successful tactics employed by various libraries to combat the persistent problem of overdue materials.