Re: Asylum seeker found guilty of rape will not be deported
Originally Posted by
Tpin
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I think you're being a bit vague, almost all crimes are recordable and carry an imprisonable sentence, therefore the basic, non-invasive swab can be used to gather DNA upon arrest.
Non-recordable offences are basically driving offences or similar, are they not?
Hi
Apologies Tpin, I was not being deliberately vague, It is just that the rules are mindbogglingly boring.
The legislation is here
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/note/made
The numbers of non recordable offences for which people are convicted in the Courts is quite high, in 2009 the figures were
Non Recordable offences 588,965
Recordable offences 818,491
Total Convictions 1,407,456
The non recordable offences are not all minor ones either, for example breach of the Data Protection Act is a non-recordable offence. Therefore,someone who has stolen personal data and sold this for profit would not have a criminal record.
Reproducing British Currency Notes is not recordable, neither is causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
The whole system is a mess and needs sorting.
To answer your earlier question, Enforcement Agencies is a term used to cover everything except the Military and the Police, so it covers the Security Services, Immigration and Border Control, the Nuclear Inspectorate etc right through to VOSA and Trading Standards.
I have never been either Military or Police, but I have worked with both at various times.