Recordable offence
A recordable offence is any offence under United Kingdom law where the police must keep records of convictions and offenders on the Police National Computer.[1]
A 'crime recordable offence' should not be confused with a 'Notifiable Offence'.
Legislation
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 a number of non-imprisonable offences, 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
- squatting
- 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.[2]
Further police powers
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.[3]
Sources
- ↑ Lawiki.org (Formerly The K-Zone:) recordable offence
- ↑ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20101214080356/http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/policies/Data/Retention%20of%20Records06.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 14, 2010. Retrieved July 27, 2010. Missing or empty
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External links
- Recordable Offences - Statutelaw.gov.uk
- 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