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<p>The Director's Guidance on Charging, fifth edition, published on 6 May 2013 and the Director's Guidance on Adult Conditional Cautioning, seventh edition, published in April 2013, assist authorised police officers and prosecutors in applying the Conditional Cautioning Code of Practice in deciding how an offender should be dealt with and when it is appropriate to consider a conditional caution.</p><p>The code of practice makes specific provision for offences committed by foreign national offenders where a conditional caution is proposed to facilitate the removal of the offender from the jurisdiction. The code advises that, in appropriate cases, the public interest is in removal of the offender from the United Kingdom and the code permits consideration in any case where the sentence likely to be imposed by the court for the offence concerned will not exceed two years imprisonment.</p> |