Home Department written question – answered at on 5 March 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the effect of the introduction of penalty notices for disorder on the efficiency of police forces in England and Wales.
We have made no overall assessment. It is a matter for the individual judgment of police officers and police community support officers whether they issue such notices under the guidance and instructions issued by their chief officers taking account of the Police Operational Guidance for Penalty Notices for Disorder issued by the Home Office in March 2005.
The "Diary of a Police Officer" was a study undertaken by PA Consulting in 2001 and published as Police Research Paper 149 in November 2001. Calculations based on the "Diary of a Police Officer" indicate that the time saved in issuing a PND compared to arrest and case preparation is about 7.6 hours for each PND issued in custody. A PND issued on the street would save 9.9 hours for each PND.
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