Police Cautions: Wales

(asked on 22nd October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were given a (a) simple and (b) conditional caution in Wales in each year between 2013 and 2017.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 31st October 2018

Information on cautions is available in the published out of court disposals data tool: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733984/out-of-court-disposals-tool-2017-update.xlsx

To limit the data to Wales, filter the data using Police Force Area and select Dyfed-Powys, Gwent,

North Wales and South Wales.

Open the Cautions pivot table and remove the variables from the rows box and drag the ‘Offence group’ variable from the filters box into the rows box.

It is not possible to identify whether an offender received a simple or conditional caution as this data is not centrally held by the Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database.

Summary motoring offences are mostly dealt with a Fixed Penalty Notice rather than a caution and as such are not included in the data.

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