A recordable offence is any offence in England and Wales where the police must keep records of convictions and offenders on the Police National Computer.
This states that a 'crime recordable offence' is an offence which must be recorded as a conviction on the PNC.
Recordable offences include any offence punishable by imprisonment, plus at least 50 non-imprisonable offences,[2] such as: A full, lengthy, list of recordable offences is available, provided by ACPO as an Appendix to their Retention Guidelines for Nominal Records on the Police National Computer.
[3] 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.
[4] This law enforcement–related article is a stub.