Guidance

Using conditional cautions with sobriety requirements

This guidance explains how to use sobriety conditions to deal with low-level crime. It is based on experiences with the sobriety pilot scheme.

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Provides guidance on the concept of conditional cautions with sobriety conditions, those eligible for this type of disposal, the conditions, failure and non-compliance and the lessons learned.

The annexes provide a summary of the findings of the pilot scheme, sample conditions, sample wordings for requesting a second breath test and a process flowchart for issuing a conditional caution.

Published 12 November 2013