Recordable offence
A recordable offence is any offence in England and Wales where the police must keep records of convictions and offenders on the Police National Computer.[1]
Legislation edit
The power for police to keep such records is contained in the National Police Records (Recordable Offences) Regulations 2000. This states that a 'crime recordable offence' is an offence which must be recorded as a conviction on the PNC.
Recordable offences include any offence punishable by imprisonment, plus at least 50 non-imprisonable offences,[2] such as:
- nuisance communications (phone calls, letters)
- tampering with motor vehicles
- firearms, air weapons, knives
- football offences
- causing harm or danger to children
- drunkenness
- poaching
- failing to provide a specimen of breath, and
- taking a pedal cycle without owner's consent
A full, lengthy, list of recordable offences is available, provided by ACPO as an Appendix to their Retention Guidelines for Nominal Records on the Police National Computer.[3]
Further police powers edit
Where a person has been arrested for a recordable offence, police may fingerprint and take non-intimate DNA samples from suspects without authorisation from senior ranks.[4]
Sources edit
- ^ Kobylarz, Thaddeus. "Recordable offence - Law wiki, the wiki for law research". Lawiki.org. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ "The National Police Records (Recordable Offences) Regulations 2000". legislaton.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Retention Guidelines for Nominal Records on the Police National Computer" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 14, 2010. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
- ^ Gray, Andrew. "Types of offences". Trident Ploughshares legal support (England & Wales). Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
External links edit
- Text of the National Police Records (Recordable Offences) Regulations 2000 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
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