Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 out-of-court disposals: diversionary and community cautions, conditions, enforcement and alternatives (England and Wales)
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Out of court disposals
Out of court disposals (OOCDs) is the term for a range of pre-charge sanctions deployed by the police and other enforcement agencies to deal with low-level, and frequently first-time, offending. At present, there are six OOCD options: simple cautions, conditional cautions, cannabis and khat warnings, community resolutions and penalty notices for disorderly behaviour. See Practice Note: Alternatives to prosecution for adults. While OOCDs remain a valuable mechanism for addressing minor offences without recourse to the courts, a 2013/2014 government consultation recognised the need for reform. It concluded, among other things, that the existing OOCD system is unnecessarily complex and fails to deliver meaningful consequences for offenders or to reduce reoffending. Feedback further highlighted that the scheme has become unwieldy and is applied inconsistently between different police forces. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (PCSCA 2022) will overhaul the current OOCD framework by replacing it with a statutory two-tier model introducing two cautions—diversionary and community—both of which must have conditions attached. The police will continue to retain the use of non-statutory community resolutions as an informal disposal option. The intention is that, by simplifying and standardising...
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