FOI 23460-25 Diversion or education course for kerb crawling

Request to Northamptonshire Police:

1: Do you currently offer a diversion/education course for people who have been caught for kerb crawling? If not: have you ever offered such a course, and if so, why was the course discontinued? Are there any discussions about introducing such a course at the moment?

2: If you currently offer such a course, could you please provide me with the following info:
- start date of the initiative
- how often is it running and participants per course
- Anything you might be able to share about aims/objectives
- how many people has to been offered to on an annual basis for the last 5 years
- what are the criteria for being offered the course?
- how many people chose to do the course / declined to do the course
- what was the reoffending rate for kerb crawling among those that participated in the course / did not participate in the course?

Response:

Please be advised that the Freedom Of Information Act relates to specific recorded information held by an authority. and the authority does not have to answer your question if this would mean creating new information or giving an opinion or judgement that is not already recorded.

1. No there is not a course specifically targeted at kerb crawlers. We are unaware of any previous specific courses offered.

2. n/a