Formal Caution?

Question

I was asked to attend an interview at a police station for something I had allegedly done. No charges were ever brought and the case went no further. How would I know if I had received a formal caution or not? Do you get a letter from the police or solicitor saying you have been cautioned? Just curious if I ever get asked for a crb check.

Answer 1

You will be told off by the custody sgt, and told why what you did was not acceptable.
You will have to sign to accept the caution.
It will be listed on your Police Record (PNC/Police National Computer) for life (for reference only). I think on a standard CRB check it will not come up. An Enchanced check it WILL come up. If you do a SAR (Subject Access Request) I belive it will come up.

Somtimes people think that a formal repremand is the same as a Police Caution

Answer 2

To get a caution there are certain criteria the police have to meet, 1, that the crime would be found guilty at court if it went to trial & 2, that yoiu admit to the crime and agree to accept a caution.

You would have been told and actually received a caution verbally and in writing from a senior officer at the time you went to the police station.

If you are still unsure go to a police station with £10 and ask for a data release, they will then send you any records that they hold on you on every system.

Answer 3

A Police Caution is a formal warning given by or on the instructions of a senior Police officer.

A Caution can be only given to an adult who has admitted guilt for an offence. The Police Caution is administered where that person could have been charged or prosecuted for the offence and is only given for minor or less serious offences.

The Police Caution is recorded on the Police National Computer and can be taken into consideration by the Court if that person is convicted and sentenced for a further offence.

Answer 4

In the UK, even if you aren't charged and sent to Court, you might still end up with a "criminal record" - not a real one in the way that we all understand it, but even so it's a record on a national database that identifies you as the person responsible for a crime. It all grew out of the Soham murders. If a particular employer asks (e.g. somebody emplying people to work with children) then this database will report ALL records logged with your details - and you won't even know they've done it. The earlier answerers are correct - you need to check, by a subject access check, or simply by marching into your local police station and complaining (and insisting that they record your complanit.) Complain that they have wrongly given you a criminal record, and let them prove either (1) they haven't or (2) they have, but you deserve it, and here's why...

Answer 5

If you were given a formal caution you would have been told at the police station and signed a form to accept the caution.

Answer 6

In accepting a caution you are entering a plea of guilty therefore your mugshot and fingerprints will have been taken and you will have signed the release.
Did you know that legally the police in the UK cannot take fingerprints and mugshots if you say no to that. They can only take them if you are found guilty in court of law. But they won't tell you that, most people are so intimidated by the system they allow it to happen, well don't and continue to refuse until a judgement of found guilty is given.

Answer 7

Are you in the UK?

If so then you would have been formally told at the time and your rights would have been read to you.

I think in your case you were probably not cautioned

Answer 8

so a techniques as i'm conscious, they could have replaced it yet i replaced into lower than the impact that a suitable caution is in elementary words meant to outlive record for 3 years... Its properly worth asking on the cop save

Answer 9

Yes, like The Bulb said, you have to accept a caution - so you'd know if you'd been given one

Answer 10

You would have been cautioned by the custody sgt and would have had to sign a form to confirm that you had recieved it.