Information held by the Ministry of Justice for the number of Penalty Notices for Disorder (PND) issued to persons aged 16 and over for the offence of Theft (retail under £200), and for alcohol related offences in England and Wales in 2007 that were paid (i) at the earliest opportunity within the 21 day suspended enforcement period is shown in the table. 21 days is the minimum period before which forces can register a fine against the recipient for not responding to a notice, so forces can accept payments after the SEP for administrative purposes. It is not possible to identify the payment rate of fines arising from unpaid PNDs separately from other court-imposed fines. However, the latest enforcement rate for all fines including those from unpaid PNDs, is 85.2 per cent. for the period April to December 2008.
Information on the number of persons who requested a court appearance after being issued with a PND has been provided in the table. It is not possible from the information collected centrally to provide details on the outcomes of these cases.
PND data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
Certain motoring offences, including parking offences where not de-criminalised, can be dealt with by the offer of a fixed penalty. Information reported to the Home Office on outcomes of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) are not broken down by offence, therefore data on payment rates for FPNs for parking offences are not available.
Offence Number issued Paid in full within 21 days Percentage Court hearing requested Percentage Shoplifting Theft (retail under £200)3 45,146 15,390 34 172 0 Alcohol related offences Drunk and disorderly2 46,996 19,727 42 244 1 Sale of alcohol to drunken person5 81 50 62 3 4 Supply of alcohol to a person under 18 54 31 57 1 2 Sale of alcohol to a person under 183 3,583 2,623 73 13 0 Purchasing alcohol for a person under 183 555 244 44 4 1 Purchasing alcohol for a person under 18 for consumption on the premises 64 23 36 — — Delivery of alcohol to a person under 18 or allowing such delivery3 431 219 51 1 0 Drunk in a highway 2,066 942 46 8 0 Consumption of alcohol in a designated public place 1,544 259 17 6 0 Consumption of alcohol by a person under 18 on relevant premises3 85 55 65 — — Allowing consumption of alcohol by a person under 18 on relevant premises3 11 8 73 — — Buying or Attempting to buy alcohol by a person under 185 158 85 54 — — Alcohol related offences total 55,628 24,266 44 280 1 1 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 2 Offence moved from the lower tier (£50) to the upper tier (£80) on 1 November 2004. 3 Offence added with effect from 1 November 2004. 4 Offence added with effect from 11 October 2004. 5 Offence added with effect from 4 April 2005. Source: Evidence and Analysis Unit—Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Ministry of Justice