The offences of sale to, and consumption of alcohol by, under 18s were added to the penalty notice for disorder scheme on one November 2004. Data from the penalty notices for disorder database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform showing the number of penalty notices issued for (a) consumption of alcohol by, and (b) selling alcohol to, under-age people in the requested police force areas in November and December 2004, as well as provisional data for 2005, are provided in the following table.
DA07—sale of alcohol to a person under 18 DB09—consumption of alcohol by person under 18 on licensed premises Police force area 2004 (November to December) 2005 (provisional) 2004 (November to December) 2005 (provisional) Bedfordshire — 2 — — Cambridgeshire — 11 — 1 Essex 7 117 — 1 Hertfordshire — 3 — — Norfolk — — — — Suffolk — 15 — — 1 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.