Freedom of Information Request Reference No:
I note you seek access to the following information:
How many offenders who received a police caution in 2012-13 (including all types of
cautions - ie. simple cautions and conditional cautions) had previously received a
caution, and how many previous cautions in total had they received?
Please provide the data for the financial year 2012-13 if possible. Alternatively, periods
by calendar year or another 12 month period are acceptable.
Please break down those who have accepted multiple cautions into the following
categories, if possible: 1 - 5 previous cautions, 6 - 10 previous cautions, 11 - 20
cautions, 20+ cautions, 50+ cautions and 100+ cautions.
In addition, please provide a figure for the greatest number of cautions accepted by a
single offender in your force area.
Decision
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.
Please find attached information pursuant to your request above.
Please be aware that under the Ministry of Justice Guidance on Adult Simple Cautions,
a second caution can be issued for a similar offence if a period of two years has
elapsed since the first was delivered and exceptional circumstances exist. Equally, by
asking for all caution types individuals may have received a caution and a conditional
caution. For youth the system of youth cautions was changed in April 2013 from an
escalatory process whereby a youth could receive one reprimand and then a Final
Warning, to a system of Youth Cautions and Youth Conditional Cautions which are
decided on a case by case basis. Therefore young people, under the Legal Aid,
Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012 are entitled to receive
more then one youth caution or youth conditional caution. Equally, an individual may
have received a caution or conditional caution when under 18, and again received a
caution or conditional caution as an adult. The MPS can only provide statistics for
cautions issued within their own force area and therefore cannot state whether an
individual has previously received a caution in another force area.
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Custody Arrests where the Detainee has been Cautioned and has received
at least one other Caution previously, as recorded by the MPS Onl y
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For the disposal date period 0 1/04/20 13 - 31/1 0/20 1 3
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Custody Arrests where the Detainee has been Cautioned and has received at
Summary least one other Caution previously .For the disposal date period 01/04/2013 31/10/2013 .
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Date Created 26/11/201 3
Review Date
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This report uses LIVE DATA extracted from NSPIS Custod y
Date Live data was extracted : 25/ 11 / 201 3
The data in this report reflects live data which may be subject to small changes over time
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Notice rorces in the united Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government
bodies and the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures
are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the crime data . It should be noted that
for these reasons this force's response to your questions should not be used for comparison purpose s
Last Refresh Date : 26/11/2013 Doi Reporting Services - 783131 Data is subject to daily change
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The data in thi s report was extracted fro m the l i ve NSPIS system o n 25th N ovembe r 2013 .
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The Docu men t D i s p osal was set to equal a ny of the following :
Co nd itio nal Cauti on
Simp l e Cauti o n
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The 'Latest Front Sheet and the 'Latest Document Disposal' filters were used to return the most up to date data .
The Document Disposal Date was set between 01/04/2008 and 31/10/2013 .
Please note that cautions received by individuals outside of the MPS area have not been included . (For example,
if a person is detained in Manchester and receives a caution this will not be picked up in this repo rt ) .
The NSPIS Custody System only goes back to 01/04/2008 and any cautions received by individuals before this date
have not been included in this report . Data in this repo rt is from the NSPIS Custody System only .
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The PNC ID (Police National Computer ID) was returned and the data was impo rted into Access . A duplicate query was
used to look for how many cautions have been recorded against each PNC ID . (Whilst a new MPS Custody Record Number
is created for eve ry arrest, regardless of whether the individual has been arrested before , an individual should only have one
PNC ID number) .
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Please note that there were over 2 , 000 records returned without a PNC ID and these records have been excluded from the repo rt.
Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the
recording criteria is set nationally . However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic , nor are
the procedures used locally in capturing the crime data . It should be noted that for these reasons this force's
response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive .
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Last Refresh Date : 26/11/2013 Doi Reporting Services - 783131
Data is subject to daily change
Ad-Hoc Req : 45638 If you have any queries with this report, please contact the Helpdesk O M O PAC 2013
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Custody Arrests where the Detainee has been Cautioned
and has received at least one other Caution previously
For the Disposal Date period 01/04/2008 - 31/10/201 3
Data for the M PS Jurisdiction Only from the NSPIS Custody Syste m
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1- 5 Previous Cautions
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6 -10 Previous Cautions
Greatest Number of Cautions accepted by a Single Offender
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Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recording criteria is
set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic , nor are the procedures used locally in capturin g
the crime data . It should be noted that for these reasons this force 's response to your questions should not be used for comparison
purposes with any other response you may receive .
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Last Refresh Date : 26/11/2013 Doi Reporting Services - 783131 Data is subject to daily change
Ad-Hoc Req : 45638 If you have any queries with this report, please contact the Helpdesk O M OPAC 2013