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.
1.
From April 2020 the force will be using the following OoCDs for adults:
Conditional Caution
Simple Caution
Community Resolution
PND for Disorder
Cannabis Warning
2.
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.