Penalty Notices for Disorder
Justice
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Anne McIntosh (- Shadow Minister, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Vale of York, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what percentage of penalty notices for disorder were issued (a) in police custody and (b) on the street in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008.
Claire Ward (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Watford, Labour)
Information showing the number of persons aged 16 and over issued with a penalty notice for disorder (PND) in a police station and on the street, in England and Wales, 2007 (latest available) can be viewed in the table. Data for 2008 are planned for publication at the end of January 2010.
PNDs were introduced under the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 to provide the police with a simple financial punishment to deal with minor antisocial and nuisance offending either at a police station or on the street. Operational guidance to forces issued by the Secretary of State for Justice sets out the criteria which should be considered by officers in deciding where to issue a PND.
| Number of persons aged 16 and over issued with a penalty notice for disorder (PND) in a police station and on the street in England and Wales, 2007( 1) | ||
| Police station | Street | |
| PND issued | 115,939 | 91,605 |
| Percentage | 56 | 44 |
| (1 )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 large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: OCJR E&A (Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Evidence and Analysis Unit), Ministry of Justice. | ||