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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:

 

  1. 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.

 

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