Adult Disposals - 328/20

Date Responded 10 March 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

From April 2020 which of the following out of court disposals will your force be using for adults?

a. community resolution

b. simple caution

c. conditional caution

d. deferred prosecution

e. PND

f. other – please specify

2. Looking at your data for the past five years (calendar years 2015-2019) can you provide figures for the number of disposals issued/initiated to adults by your force for each of the following?

a. community resolution

b. simple caution

c. conditional caution

d. deferred prosecution

e. PND

f. any other out of court disposal

g. charged/summonsed

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

From April 2020 the force will be using the following OoCDs for adults:

Conditional Caution

Simple Caution

Community Resolution

PND for Disorder

Cannabis Warning

Year	CHARGED	COMMUNITY RESOLUTION	CONDITIONAL CAUTION	PENALTY NOTICE	SIMPLE CAUTION	OTHER
2015	25924	1743	96	2097	4693	3656
2016	19977	1846	42	1607	3725	3047
2017	16710	1672	165	1347	2737	2129
2018	15414	1391	358	1235	2860	2231
2019	13954	865	212	1346	2759	1817

Caveats to be noted when viewing the figures:

The above data only reflects the final disposal for any given individual on any given case.

A deferred prosecution relates to a company rather than an individual. Our data relates to individuals.

"Any other Out of Court disposal" has been defined as the following:

CAUTION (FORMAL)

CANNABIS WARNING

DRIVER IMPROVEMENT

ABC COURSE

REPRIMAND

REMAND LOCAL

WARNING FIRST INSTANCE

WARNING AFTER REPRIMAND

SECOND WARNING

CAUTION (VERBAL)

CAUTION (LETTER)

ENDORSABLE FPT

NON ENDORSABLE FPT

Instances where the offender was under the age of 18 when arrested but over the age of 18 at disposal have not been counted.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would expect that you to take into consideration the factors highlighted above so as not to mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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