Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) living in the community by length of time since release, March 2016

Time since release

Total FNOs

Less than 6 months

522

Between 6 months and one year

440

Between one and two years

843

Between two and three years

574

Between three and four years

466

Between four and five years

344

Over five years

1,792

No UK conviction or sentence end date not recorded

914

Total March 2016

5,895

(1) The figures quoted have been derived from management information from the Home Office databases and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.

(2) A Foreign National Offender (FNO) is defined as an individual with a criminal case on the Home Office's Case Information Database (CID) and may include individuals with asylum cases.

(3) Figures relate to those FNOs who have completed their custodial sentence and are subject to deportation action living in the community.

(4) Figures relate to a snapshot of cases as of March 2016.

(5) Details of restrictions may not be routinely available from the Case Information Database at the time of reporting for FNOs. This includes those FNOs with overseas convictions identified by increased use of intelligence (e.g. from the Association of Chief Police Officers Records Office, ACRO) where there has not been any custodial detention within the UK. The consequence of this is that these cases cannot be counted within the different length of time since release categories and are then recorded in the column labelled Data Quality.