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:
1. The number of offences relating to ketamine possession between 2012 and 2023, broken down by year.
2. The number of offences relating to ketamine distribution between 2012 and 2023, broken down by year.
After we advised on the limitations of search abilities you agreed to the data from 2017 - 2023
In Response:
We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.
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 with the caveats to be noted as follows.
- To note – we only hold easily retrievable information from 2017 only.
- Data supplied is correct to 8 March 2023.
|
Offence |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
Total |
|
Having possession of a controlled drug Ketamine (Special K or ‘Club horse’ drug) |
14 |
21 |
14 |
11 |
7 |
8 |
- |
75 |
|
Possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply Ketamine (Special K or ‘Club horse’ drug) |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
Supplying or offering to supply Ketamine ('Special K' or 'Club horse' drug) |
- |
5 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
- |
16 |
|
Total |
14 |
26 |
17 |
14 |
12 |
11 |
1 |
95 |
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 a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
