Recordable offence
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A recordable offence is any offence under United Kingdom law where the police are able to keep records of convictions and offenders on the Police National Computer or PNC.[1]
[edit] Legislation
The power for police to keep such records is contained in the National Police Records (Recordable Offences) Regulations 2000. [1]
Recordable offences include any offence punishable by imprisonment, and offences relating to:
- prostitution
- nuisance communications (phone calls, letters)
- tampering with motor vehicles
- firearms, air weapons, knives
- causing harm or danger to children
- licenced premises
- drunkenness
- poaching
- public order
- begging
- failing to provide a specimen of breath, and
- taking a pedal cycle without consent.
[edit] Further police powers
Where a person has been arrested for a recordable offence, police may fingerprint and take non-intimate DNA samples from suspects without authorisation from senior ranks.[2]
