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Recommendation 26
26
Accepted
Paragraph: 70
In its response to this report the Government should provide us with data on: •...
Recommendation
In its response to this report the Government should provide us with data on: • the number and proportion of fixed penalty notices that have not been paid; • the number of cases where the police have decided not to prosecute or no decision was taken before the expiry of the limitation period; and • the total number of prosecutions of covid-19 cases including single justice procedure cases.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government provided specific data on paid and unpaid Fixed Penalty Notices and the total number of COVID-19 prosecutions for 2021. It stated that data on cases where police decided not to prosecute or where no decision was taken is not held centrally.
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Paragraph Reference:
70
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
Data as to the number of cases where the police have decided not to seek a prosecution, or no decision was taken before the expiry of the limitation period, is not held centrally. ACRO Criminal Records Office (ACRO), the processing body for COVID-19 FPNs on behalf of the Police, hold some information received from individual forces on their handling of FPNs, but they do not have a comprehensive or accurate picture of the overall position in terms of compliance, or of decisions taken at force level. Presently, almost 50% of notices do not have a proceed/rescind outcome on ACRO records. HMCTS outcome data would assist with identifying the number and nature of the cases which resulted in prosecution but police do not have access to that information.
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