If your adult caution was for a proscribed offence it will show up indefinitely on a standard and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service DBS certificate. Most offences that appear on the proscribed list you would be unlikely to receive a caution for, offences include murder, terrorism and rape.
However there are a certain number of offences that are on the proscribed list that can easily apply to facts that are relatively minor, offences such as Actual Bodily Harm ABH , child cruelty or burglary. Whilst these offences can at times relate to more serious factual incidents, sometimes cautions can be issues for these offences where the facts are relatively minor.
Examples might be causing a minor cut or bruise to someone during a domestic fight, leaving your child unattended for a short period of time or a burglary allegation when a youth and of a low value and type, for example entering an abandoned home and taking something of low value.
On an enhanced DBS certificate , a police caution will definitely show up for 6 years, after which it will be protected and will most likely be filtered off of a DBS certificate. If however your caution is for an offence on the proscribed list of offences that never become filtered, then your caution will never become protected and it will always appear on your DBS certificate.
Even if your caution is not for a proscribed list offence and so will be eligible for filtering, the police retain a broad discretion in terms of the information they can disclose on an enhanced DBS certificate. So even of your caution was for a minor common assault, or a minor theft, the police, if they feel the caution reveals facts that are relevant to your job application, then they may disclose relevant facts on your certificate.
If information related to your caution is disclosed after the 6 year period, as long as it is not for a proscribed list caution, you may appeal the disclosure of this information.
The Criminal Records Office issues certificates that are used by UK citizens looking to emigrate to foreign nations. The step down process removes cautions from a certificate after certain periods of time. A serious caution will be removed after 10 years, a caution for a more minor offence will be removed after 5 years. Even if a caution is stepped down, your certificate will still give an indication to a foreign nation that you have at least been arrested.
This will then, at the very least, give the country you wish to immigrate to, an indication that you have had an issue with the law in the past. We are specialist police caution removal solicitors and have extensive experience of challenging unlawfully issued police cautions.
Find out more information about how to get a police caution removed , or contact specialist caution removal solicitor Mark Hopwell to discuss your case. A simple caution is a record of criminal allegation where an individual accepts the evidence and admits the allegation.
Conditional cautions attach conditions, such as the payment of a fine, or an apology letter; if the conditions are not met then the caution can be voided with a prosecution commenced.
There are also youth cautions and youth conditional cautions, which are similar to adult cautions but have slightly different procedural requirements. A police caution is not technically a criminal conviction, but it does have a number of the hallmarks of a conviction. Most significant of these is that it will be retained on the PNC indefinitely, and so will be a permanent criminal record. Certain disclosure rules apply to when a caution can be disclosed, but the caution will always remain on the PNC unless it is deleted.
In addition, the police retain a discretion to disclose any caution on an enhanced DBS check even if it has been filtered , where they deem it to be relevant to the specific DBS check.
There is a common misconception that a police caution gets removed after five years due to previous rules related to retention of cautions. The retention and disclosure rules have changed many times over the years. A police caution is retained on the PNC for years unless deleted. A caution will not be disclosed on a basic DBS check but will show on an enhanced and standard DBS check for six years.
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