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Crime: Section Three

This document provides principles and rules around broadcasting material related to crime from Ofcom. It states that material likely to encourage or incite crime or disorder cannot be included. Descriptions of criminal techniques cannot be broadcast unless editorially justified. Payments cannot be made to criminals for stories about their crimes, except where it is in the public interest. Payments also cannot be made to potential witnesses during active legal proceedings.

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Crime: Section Three

This document provides principles and rules around broadcasting material related to crime from Ofcom. It states that material likely to encourage or incite crime or disorder cannot be included. Descriptions of criminal techniques cannot be broadcast unless editorially justified. Payments cannot be made to criminals for stories about their crimes, except where it is in the public interest. Payments also cannot be made to potential witnesses during active legal proceedings.

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www.ofcom.org.uk

Section Three:
Crime

(Relevant legislation includes, in particular, sections 3(4)(j) and 319(2)(b) of the


Communications Act 2003, Article 6 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, and
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.)
Principle
To ensure that material likely to encourage or incite the commission of
crime or to lead to disorder is not included in television or radio services.
Rules
3.1

Material likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or to lead to disorder


must not be included in television or radio services.

3.2

Descriptions or demonstrations of criminal techniques which contain essential details


which could enable the commission of crime must not be broadcast unless editorially
justified.

3.3

No payment, promise of payment, or payment in kind, may be made to convicted or


confessed criminals whether directly or indirectly for a programme contribution by
the criminal (or any other person) relating to his/her crime/s. The only exception is
where it is in the public interest.

3.4

While criminal proceedings are active, no payment or promise of payment may be


made, directly or indirectly, to any witness or any person who may reasonably be
expected to be called as a witness. Nor should any payment be suggested or made
dependent on the outcome of the trial. Only actual expenditure or loss of earnings
necessarily incurred during the making of a programme contribution may be
reimbursed.

3.5

Where criminal proceedings are likely and foreseeable, payments should not be
made to people who might reasonably be expected to be witnesses unless there is
a clear public interest, such as investigating crime or serious wrongdoing, and the
payment is necessary to elicit the information. Where such a payment is made it will
be appropriate to disclose the payment to both defence and prosecution if the person
becomes a witness in any subsequent trial.

3.6

Broadcasters must use their best endeavours so as not to broadcast material that could
endanger lives or prejudice the success of attempts to deal with a hijack or kidnapping.

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