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Drugs: Humberside

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 17 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in the Humberside Police Authority area were (a) arrested for, (b) charged with and (c) convicted of drug offences in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. (262254)

The available information for the number of people in the Humberside Police Authority area arrested for drug offences in each of the last five years is given in table 1.

Data provided by the Ministry of Justice, showing the number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts of drug offences in the Humberside Police Force Area, 2003 to 2007 are in table 2. Charging data are not collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice; proceeded against information is provided in lieu.

The court proceedings statistics provided relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with.

When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

Table 1: Persons arrested for drugs offences by police force area, England and Wales1

Number of arrests for drug offences

Police force area

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Humberside

1,337

1,484

1,242

1,082

1,209

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 courts and 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.

Table 2: Number of persons proceeded against at magistrates' courts and found guilty at all courts for drug offences, in Humberside police force area, 2003-071,2

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Proceeded against

740

790

739

680

716

Found guilty

672

719

685

665

674

1 The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

2 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 courts and 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.

Source:

Evidence and Analysis Unit—Office for Criminal Justice Reform