Criminal record?!
 

I just read that you can get a criminal record for running away. I ran away 6 or 7 times when I was in psychiatric units. Would I know if I had a criminal record for it?? I'm so worried!

I have never heard that before but I know you can go to court to try and have things removed if you have a good explanation and seen as you were in a psychiatric unit I would say thats a pretty good reason.

Sorry useless reply really but I hope find out soon.
take care
xx

I've never heard that before to be honest

I don't think you can get a criminal record for running away from a psychiatric unit. If the police were informed then it would be entered into their computer systems as an incident log etc but I don't think it would come up on a CRB check for example. It's likely you'd know if you had a criminal record; e.g. you'd been cautioned or convicted for a crime. I could be wrong though.

As far as i know this is right. You will be on the police system but that is completley different to a criminal record.

You cannot get a criminal record for running away from a psychiatric unit.

Any convictions you get will be detailed to you so you would know if you had any. They can't convict you from running away from a unit, they tend to be more concerned than wanting to slap charges on you.

Oh good. Thanks everyone, I feel a lot more reassured now! :)