Restorative Justice

Please can I details of all the police's restorative justice cases between January 2008 to December 2010.

If possible, can the information include details of the cases for example 'an 11-year-old was told reimburse neighbour after stealing money etc'. Or whether a person was made to pledge not to do something or apologise to the victim

Could I also get a rough date that the solution was made and how many restorative justice cases have been declined?

I can confirm that we hold the data you are requesting. However from our preliminary assessment, we estimate that compliance with your request would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000. This is currently £450. The reason for this is if we were to try and detail what the actual restorative action was in each case we would need to go into each individual record of each crime manually to establish if for example a letter of apology had been sent etc. For the time period there has been 5100 crimes detected by way of RJ, which would take approximately 255 man hours to achieve a result.

Similarly there is no easy way for us to establish the number of RJ cases that have been declined as once declined the disposal would be by some other method, i.e summons, caution or similar.

I have nevertheless provided you with the details of the numbers and types of crimes that have been dealt with by way of RJ.

Please see FOI 2863 Resorative Justice disposal 2008 -2010