Pre-Court Work > Police Reprimands
A young person charged with a first
offence and pleads guilty may depend on the
seriousness of the offence and receive a Police
Reprimand.
The young person and parent(s) will have a Senior
Police Officer warn the young person about their
behaviour leading to the offence and issue the
Reprimand.
No further action will be taken with the young
person.
Further provision of the Criminal
Justice and Immigration Act 2008 implemented
From 19 December, warnings, reprimands and
cautions have been brought within the scope of the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, so that
reprimands and warnings are spent at the time they
are given and youth conditional cautions, when
introduced, will be spent after three months.
Once such warnings and cautions become ‘spent’, a person is generally not obliged to declare them when applying for a job, but the disposals are recorded on the Police National Computer and will continue to be disclosed where required for Criminal Records Bureau enhanced and standard checks. Note that these provisions apply retrospectively to all reprimands and warnings given prior to December 2008.
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note from the Office for Criminal Justice Reform.
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At least 60% of young people in the youth justice
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that over half of the young people you work with do
not understand what people say to them or find it
difficult to get their message across. The
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