The information requested on the number of penalty notices for disorder issued for selling alcohol to persons under-18 is provided in the following table.
This offence attracts a penalty notice for disorder (PND) of £80. The offence was added to the PND scheme on 1 November 2004. Failure to pay the penalty or request a court hearing within 21 days, results in a fine of one-and-half times the penalty amount, in this case £120, being registered by the court. Data on the number of PNDs issued and fine registered for 2004 and 2005 are also provided in the table; data for 2006 will be available shortly.
Penalty notices for disorder issued Penalty notices for disorder fine registered Police force area 2004 2005 2004 2005 Avon and Somerset — 56 — 4 Bedfordshire — 2 — — Cambridgeshire — 11 — — Cheshire — 49 — 2 Cleveland — 33 — 1 Cumbria — 23 — — Derbyshire — 8 — 1 Devon and Cornwall — 82 — 7 Dorset 22 22 2 — Durham — — — — Essex 7 120 — 6 Gloucestershire — 42 — 5 Greater Manchester — 127 — 22 Hampshire 2 67 1 7 Hertfordshire — 3 — — Humberside 2 45 — 3 Kent — 10 — 6 Lancashire 30 190 1 22 Leicestershire 2 46 — 4 Lincolnshire — 26 — 1 Merseyside 2 73 — 15 Metropolitan Police 21 161 3 16 Norfolk — — — — North Yorkshire — — — — Northamptonshire 1 39 — 4 Northumbria 1 48 1 3 Nottinghamshire 9 117 — 17 South Yorkshire 2 107 — 9 Staffordshire — 19 — 1 Suffolk — 19 — 1 Surrey — — — — Sussex — 63 — 2 Thames Valley — 12 — — Warwickshire — 3 — 1 West Mercia 1 22 — 1 West Midlands 6 114 2 13 West Yorkshire 4 72 — 11 Wiltshire — 8 — 1 Dyfed-Powys — 18 — — Gwent — 20 — 2 North Wales 1 58 — 10 South Wales — 123 — 13 England and Wales 113 2,058 10 211 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 the 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. 2 PND data covers the offence of sale of alcohol to person under-18 under the Licensing Act 2003 S126. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice.