Diversion/education course 1200/2025

FOI Reference: 1200/2025

Request

1. Do you currently offer a diversion/education course for people who have been caught for kerb crawling (charged or arrested under Section 51A)? 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

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does not hold the information requested, due to the fact that we do not currently offer a diversion / education course.  No such diversion / education course have ever been offered.  There are no discussions about introducing such a course. 

It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 05/01/2026)