Out of Court Disposals (3066/20)
Request
- 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
Response
Please find attached (3066_20_attachment.pdf).
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.