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The police or Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) can give you a caution (warning) or a penalty notice if you commit a minor crime
This document contains the following information: Draft Revised code of practice for conditional cautions - adults
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
You might need to tell an organisation about your criminal record when…
The information you need to give about a conviction or caution depends on:…
Use this tool to check if a conviction or caution is still on your basic…
A caution is an official warning from the police. It could be a: simple…
A court might order you to pay: a fine compensation to someone…
A court might give you a conviction for a driving offence, for example…
A court might: give you a prison sentence if you’re 18 or over give you a…
A court might give you: community service (‘community order’) if you’re 18…
A discharge is a type of conviction where a court finds you guilty but…
A court might give you a military conviction if they find you guilty of a…
Guidelines for police officers and Crown Prosecutors on how and when to issue a simple caution for minor offences or first-time offenders.
Lodging a caution against first registration and dealing with caution titles (practice guide 3).
This guidance explains how to use sobriety conditions to deal with low-level crime. It is based on experiences with the sobriety pilot scheme.
Frequently asked questions on conditional cautions as part of the Drugs Intervention Programme.
This document contains the following information: Code of practice for adult conditional cautions.
This ad-hoc statistical notice presents additional analysis on the use of adult cautions, and has been produced as supporting evidence for the Adult Simple Cautions Review.
This guidance will identify whether a case is unsuitable for a youth conditional caution and where an alternative should be used.
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