Attorney-General written question – answered on 11th September 2013.
To ask the Attorney-General how many conditional cautions have been issued by police forces in England and Wales since 2013; and for what offence each such caution was issued.
The following Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) data show the total number of conditional cautions that were issued following consideration by the CPS during the period from
The data showing the number of conditional cautions issued is taken from defendant based data and not the number of offences committed. The total number of cautions issued will therefore differ from that noted in the breakdown of offence category.
Since
As a result of these revised arrangements, data for conditional cautions issued after
The CPS data will only record those cases where following a request for Charging advice, the CPS determined that the case was more suitable to be dealt with by way of a conditional caution and where the police have charged a suspect but a prosecutor on review following charge determines that it is more appropriate to proceed by way of a conditional caution.
CPS conditional cautions 1 April 2013 to 6 September 2013 | ||
Conditional cautions | ||
Pre-charge | Post-charge | |
Total | 290 | 328 |
Avon and Somerset | 3 | 17 |
Bedfordshire | 7 | 6 |
Cambridgeshire | 4 | 11 |
Cheshire | 6 | 1 |
Cleveland | 3 | 9 |
Cumbria | 3 | 1 |
Derbyshire | 3 | 1 |
Devon and Cornwall | 8 | 6 |
Dorset | 5 | 0 |
Durham | 0 | 1 |
Dyfed Powys | 1 | 3 |
Essex | 10 | 7 |
Gloucestershire | 3 | 5 |
Greater Manchester | 4 | 14 |
Gwent | 1 | 3 |
Hampshire and IOW | 73 | 9 |
Hertfordshire | 3 | 4 |
Humberside | 6 | 12 |
Kent | 10 | 13 |
Lancashire | 14 | 8 |
Leicestershire | 4 | 7 |
Lincolnshire | 1 | 5 |
London | 18 | 35 |
Merseyside | 14 | 47 |
Norfolk | 4 | 16 |
Northamptonshire | 2 | 6 |
Northumbria | 3 | 6 |
North W ales | 17 | 5 |
North Yorkshire | 6 | 6 |
Nottinghamshire | 3 | 5 |
South Wales | 11 | 9 |
South Yorkshire | 1 | 5 |
Staffordshire | 5 | 3 |
Suffolk | 1 | 3 |
Surrey | 5 | 2 |
Sussex | 1 | 3 |
Thames Valley | 14 | 11 |
Warwickshire | 0 | 1 |
West Mercia | 1 | 6 |
West Midlands | 5 | 2 |
West Yorkshire | 6 | 12 |
Wiltshire | 1 | 2 |
Yes1 person thinks so
No0 people think not
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