- Appropriate adult: someone who must support an under-18 or vulnerable adult at the police station.
- Cannabis warning: recorded warning for a first simple possession offence (E&W); not a conviction.
- Caution: formal outcome instead of court; requires an admission; recorded.
- CBPM: cannabis-based product for medicinal use, specialist-prescribed.
- Community resolution: informal, locally recorded outcome.
- Cultivation: growing a cannabis plant, including germinating a seed.
- DBS check: criminal record certificate (basic, standard, enhanced).
- Diversion: education or support instead of prosecution.
- Exempt product: product with ≤1 mg controlled cannabinoid per container meeting other conditions.
- Informed warning (NI): prosecutor-directed reprimand recorded for 1 year.
- PND: £90 Penalty Notice for Disorder.
- Reasonable grounds: an objective, specific reason to suspect, not a hunch or appearance.
- RPW: Recorded Police Warning (Scotland).
- Spent: no longer has to be disclosed for most purposes.
- Supply: giving, selling or sharing drugs, even for free.
More terms
- Appropriate adult: supports a child or vulnerable person in police custody.
- Band A/B fine: 50% / 100% of relevant weekly income (starting points).[1]
- CBPM: cannabis-based product for medicinal use.
- Community resolution: informal police outcome; not a conviction.
- DBS filtering: rules removing some old cautions and convictions from standard/enhanced checks.
- Outcome 22: youth diversion with no further action, linked to an intervention; no admission needed.
- PND / PWITS / RPW: penalty notice for disorder / possession with intent to supply / Recorded Police Warning (Scotland).