Urgent question about police caution/warning

[Worriedbsl]

Is a caution and a warning the same thing?

is it obvious if you’ve had a caution? I was asked by the police to leave the premises of an ex when I had turned up looking for a piece of jewellery I thought was still at his place. He refused to engage with me and called the police instead. There was nothing else to it than that, nothing physical or any shouting etc. But it’s just occurred to me that when they asked me to go was that a warning/caution? They were pretty nice and said if I was worried he had taken something I could report it and they would look into it. But they did also say I should leave and it would be best not to come back.

It was neither a warning, nor a caution, they just asked you to leave which you did. If they give you a caution they have to tell you and you have to agree to it.

Usually, for a caution, you'd have to go into custody to receive this officially, and sign that you accept the caution. This is then on your PNC record.
Sounds like you have just had a verbal warning and at best, your details recorded in an officers notebook and on the incident log

I don’t know, but wouldn’t an official warning/caution be accompanied by some paperwork? I would have thought you wouldn’t be in any doubt that one had been issued. This sounds more like the police advising you to leave to diffuse the situation?

@MuthaHubbard what’s a verbal warning? Is that on my record or on a dbs check? I’m worried it will show up somewhere even though the incident itself was something and nothing!

It was a "move along now", not a caution . You can't really think this will show on a DBS check?

@Johnnysgirl i don’t know hence why I’ve asked. Never been involved with police before.

It was a warning.

As in, they've just asked you to leave and said not to go back or something similar.
Nothing would be recorded anywhere that would affect a dbs check etc - it would just be in the initial call made by him to say 'please ask @Worriedbsl to leave'.
Anything more than that, they would have told you and you'd have some paperwork/signed to say you accept the caution

@MuthaHubbard so it’s not a warning either then?

Not an official warning, no.

You were asked to leave, which you did nothing else.

My definition of a warning - they told you to leave and warned you not to go back as it could then be taken further. They will have probably worded it similar within the incident log
I probably should have described it more as a telling off/telling you to move along

Seriously, op, calm down. You have nothing to worry about if there's nothing more to this story.

@Johnnysgirl no there’s nothing else to it. Im just a huge worrier!

It’s fine. Just put future communication about the jewellery in writing rather than going around there

It’s not an official warning. To have it recorded on any system they will have had to take your name, DOB, address from you

I’m a DS in the police - this was neither a warning or caution, you don’t need to worry.

@MrsGarethSouthgate thanks, that’s reassuring. Have been so anxious about it.

Sounds more like "advice"
I wouldn't worry.
Hope you can resolve the jewellery issue amicably