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Drug-related Offences

Volume 456: debated on Tuesday 6 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug-related offences were recorded by police forces in each county of the east of England in each year since 1997. (118652)

Data collected centrally do not identify whether offences (other than drug offences) are drug related. The recorded crime series does include numbers of drug offences which are given as follows.

Recorded drug offences for each police force in the eastern region

Force name

1997

Bedfordshire

223

Cambridgeshire

205

Essex

401

Hertfordshire

215

Norfolk

337

Suffolk

333

Note:

Prior to April 1998, ‘trafficking in controlled drugs’ was the only drug offence included in the recorded crime series.

1998-99

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02

Bedfordshire

1,141

1,081

896

1,009

Cambridgeshire

1,166

1,011

829

798

Essex

2,312

2,421

2,208

2,212

Hertfordshire

1,197

1,180

1,438

1,350

Norfolk

1,534

1,561

1,160

1,211

Suffolk

1,581

1,410

1,178

1,292

Note:

The introduction of the revised counting rules in April 1998 expanded offence coverage. This included the addition of ‘possession of controlled drugs’ and ‘other drug offences’. These data are not comparable with earlier years.

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Bedfordshire

1,069

1,130

1,131

1,228

Cambridgeshire

904

1,047

1,174

1,442

Essex

2,377

2,295

2,328

2,889

Hertfordshire

1,553

1,678

1,754

2,044

Norfolk

1,392

1,508

1,602

1,821

Suffolk

1,689

1,923

1,974

2,015

Note:

Numbers of recorded crime were affected by changes in reporting and recording following the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These data are not comparable with earlier years.