Fawkes Cat
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Quite frequently, we get new correspondents here who have been caught without a ticket / short faring / generally getting far enough on the wrong side of the railway such as to be threatened with prosecution. And quite a lot of the time, they want to know what the consequences will be for their job if they are convicted.
I am happy that our broad advice is good for bylaw convictions - i.e that bylaw convictions don't end up on the PNC, and won't show up on any sort of DBS check. And I have no reason to think that what we say about RORA convictions (they will be recorded, but drop off a standard DBS after a year) is wrong. But what I think we are generally being asked is 'what will my employer do if they find out I have been convicted?'
Obviously we can never give a 100% guaranteed answer to this: if offender A and offender B have been convicted of the same offence in the same circumstance, but work (in the same line of trade) for employers 1 and 2 respectively, it may be that employer 2 is sympathetic to B while employer 1 sacks A. But do we have any actual evidence of what - in the real world, and in general - employers do if they find out about a fare dodging employee?
Actual evidence might help us give better advice!
I am happy that our broad advice is good for bylaw convictions - i.e that bylaw convictions don't end up on the PNC, and won't show up on any sort of DBS check. And I have no reason to think that what we say about RORA convictions (they will be recorded, but drop off a standard DBS after a year) is wrong. But what I think we are generally being asked is 'what will my employer do if they find out I have been convicted?'
Obviously we can never give a 100% guaranteed answer to this: if offender A and offender B have been convicted of the same offence in the same circumstance, but work (in the same line of trade) for employers 1 and 2 respectively, it may be that employer 2 is sympathetic to B while employer 1 sacks A. But do we have any actual evidence of what - in the real world, and in general - employers do if they find out about a fare dodging employee?
Actual evidence might help us give better advice!