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Police Office Reported Me to My Employer Without Charge or Caution. Does he Have this Right? LocalSolicitors.com

A police officer claims that I committed a lewd act. I was not arrested or cautioned. He reported me to my employer. Does he have this right

I assume that this was an electronic tag to monitor a curfew imposed as a sentence rather than a bail condition. If so you would need to ask the court that dealt with the case to list your case for a hearing. You should then attend court and make an application to change the address.

The Probabtion Service are likely to have carried out checks of the address prior to the sentence being imposed to ensure that the address is suitable. This may be something that the court will require to be done with the new address before agreeing to the variation.

If you are unable to remain at the current address and are therefore in breach of the curfew requirement it is vitally important that you notify the court and the monitoring company of the issues immediately to avoid breach proceedings being brought against you.

If you have an ongoing case and the electronically monitored curfew is a bail condition, then again you should contact the court that imposed the curfew as a matter of urgency to avoid being arrested for breach of your bail conditions. You will then need to attend court to vary the curfew address. Techically you should provide the Court and Crown Prosecution Service with 2 working days notice of the application to vary bail conditions.

Change of address when tagged

Perverting the course of justice refers to a number of actions that a person might take to interfere with the administration of UK justice. To be guilty of perverting the course of justice, the individual must have made a positive action - inaction does not count as a crime in this instance.

There are three acts that are considered to be applicable to the crime of perverting the course of justice. They are:

 * Intimidating or threatening a case witness or jury member
 * Intimidating or threatening a judge
 * Disposing of or tampering with evidence

Intimidating behaviour is considered to be making threatening suggestions or actions to a person. These can be threats of harming a person including physical and financial harm. This can be the case whether a person aims to deter a person from reporting a crime or being a witness in a case.

Tampering with evidence or disposing of evidence is a severe crime as evidence plays such a vital role in the ability to prosecute or defend in a case. This point refers to the full disposal of evidence, hiding of evidence or amending evidence to make it less valuable in court proceedings.

The punishments for perverting the course of justice [https://www.localsolicitors.com/criminal-guides/perverting-the-course-of-justice] are severe. The Crown Prosecution service recommends a minimum sentence of at least 4 months by way of punishing acts in this area. In theory, the maximum sentence that can be given for perverting the course of justice is a lifetime sentence, though the maximum sentence that has been passed, albeit on numerous instances, is a 10 year prison sentence.

What is perverting the course of justice?

A police officer claims that I committed a lewd act. I was not arrested or cautioned. He reported me to my employer. Does he have this right

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