Nominal Criminal Records on the Police National Computer
Published 21 January 2015
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The figures from 17 October 2014, are that of the 11,547,847 nominal records on Police National Computer 10,520,929 of them contained a criminal record element and 1,026,918 did not. The total number of nominal criminal records held (10,520,929) includes not only those persons with convictions but also those with impending prosecutions, cautions, cases that require no further action and any other criminal justice activity on their record, e.g. arrested but not charged.