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 have your police force made for the offences of supplying controlled drugs or possession with intent to supply controlled drugs in the last year (2018 calendar year) for young persons aged sixteen or under?
- Please provide if possible the figures for each age group i.e. ten, eleven, twelve etc and also broken down by gender for each of the two offences, breaking the alleged offences down by Class A and Class B drugs.
- For those children who were arrested AND were aged 13 or under please provide specific details on the charge they were arrested on and the exact type and class of drug they were alleged to have been involved with.
In Response:
The data was taken from the central database using the arrest and HO code tables.
To note - the offence that the offender was arrested for on occasion may not match up with the type of drug that was found.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would expect that you to take into consideration the factors highlighted above so as not to mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.
With the above noted please see below.
1&2.
|
Age/Class |
Female |
Male |
Total |
|
12 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
Class B |
|
1 |
1 |
|
13 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
Class A |
|
1 |
1 |
|
14 |
|
2 |
2 |
|
Class A |
|
2 |
2 |
|
15 |
|
3 |
3 |
|
Class A |
|
2 |
2 |
|
Class B |
|
1 |
1 |
|
16 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
|
Class A |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
Class B |
|
1 |
1 |
|
Total |
1 |
10 |
11 |
3.
|
Arrested for/Drug |
Count |
|
Supplying or offering to supply MDMA |
|
|
MDMA |
1 |
|
Supplying or offering to supply Other Class 'B' |
|
|
MDMA |
1 |
|
Total |
2 |
