Police Cautions: Wales

(asked on 25th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the overall cautioning rate in Wales in each year between 2013 and 2017 for summary offences not involving motoring.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 1st November 2018

Information requested can be found at the following published data tools from the Criminal Justice Statistics: December 2017 report (published May 2018):

Court Outcomes by Police Force Area

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733996/court-outcomes-by-pfa-2017-update.xlsx

Out of Court Disposals

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733984/out-of-court-disposals-tool-2017-update.xlsx

Remands: Magistrates’ Court https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733986/remands-magistrates-tool-2017-update.xlsx

Remands: Crown Court

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733988/remands-crown-court-tool-2017-update.xlsx

To limit the data to Wales in all of the above tools, select Welsh Police forces from the ‘Police Force Area’ filter.

For prosecutions, convictions and conviction ratios by court, age, offence group, offence type and ethnicity use the Court Outcomes by Police Force Area data tool.

  • Prosecutions: select ‘Magistrates’ court’ from the ‘Court Type’ filter. All cases are first heard at Magistrates Court and more serious cases are sent for trial or sentencing at Crown Court.
  • Convictions: use the ‘Convicted/Not Convicted’ field to filter the data
  • Conviction ratio: calculated as the number of defendants convicted (at all courts) divided by the number of defendants proceeded against (at magistrates’ court) within a given year.

Cautioning rates can be calculated using the Cautions pivot table in the Out of Courts Disposals data tool, which has a field to filter for ‘Offence group’.

Remand rates by age, sex, ethnicity and custodial sentence can be calculated using the Remands: Magistrates’ Court and Remands: Crown Court data tools.

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