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Drink driving - 861/19

Date Responded 18 July 2019

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

How many arrests were there for suspicion of drink driving by month from January 2010 to December 2017?

How many of the above were:

a. Released without charge

b.Charged?

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

The data was taken from the arrest tables in the central database where the suspect was arrested for one of the following offences:

  • Causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs
  • Driving or attempting to drive a mechanically propelled vehicle whilst unfit to drive through drink or drugs (only to be used where it is unclear whether it is drink or drugs)
  • Driving or attempting to drive a mechanically propelled vehicle whilst unfit to drive through drink or drugs - Drink.

The charges include those people who were charged or issued with a summons or postal requisition.

Bearing the above in mind please see the attached spreadsheet which should satisfy your request.

 

Drink driving - 861/19

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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