Drink driving - 590/19

Date Responded 24 May 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:

The number of drivers caught over the legal drink-drive limit in your force area, broken down by month for the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 to date.
The number of drivers caught over the legal drink-drive limit in your force area, broken down by age and gender of the offender, and broken down by year for 2017, 2018 and 2019 to date.
The three dates of the year that most people were caught over the legal drink-drive limit in your force area, including the number of offenders caught on each of these days, broken down by year for 2017, 2018 and 2019 to date.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within 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.

With regards to 2017 data and up to May 2018 the below exemption is applicable.

As the information you have requested is accessible by other means I have not provided you with a copy of the information and will rely on Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You should therefore consider this a refusal for your request.

I have provided an explanation to this exemption below.

Section 21 (1) - Information accessible by other means

Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt information.

You have already been provided with information for that time period in your earlier request – FOI 506/18 refers – therefore that information is already available to you. It is also published on the Northumbria Police Disclosure Log, the link to which is below

With regards to the remainder I respond as follows:

The data was filtered for those that failed the breath tests and only includes that data.

The data is not downloaded on a daily basis so there is likely to be data held on the breath test machines within the dates given so data may be subject to change at a later date.

The latest date recorded is the 6th of March 2019.

All the data provided below is from your last submission only – that is from May 1018. There is no overlap/duplicatIon with the previously provided figures.

Month	2018	2019	Total
Jan		79	79
Feb		29	29
Mar		5	5
May	123		123
Jun	135		135
Jul	220		220
Aug	273		273
Sep	241		241
Oct	293		293
Nov	293		293
Dec	322		322
Total	1900	113	2013

Age	2018	2019	Total
11 to 20	178	9	187
21 to 30	616	39	655
31 to 40	497	23	520
41 to 50	255	17	272
51 to 60	153	9	162
61 to 70	82	12	94
71 to 80	38	1	39
Not stated	81	3	84
Total	1900	113	2013

Gender	2018	2019	Total
Female	491	39	530
Male	1409	74	1483
Total	1900	113	2013

2018	Count
14/07/2018	67
07/07/2018	61
12/08/2018	39

2019	Count
01/01/2019	25
07/01/2019	13
02/01/2019	10

2019 data up to 06/03/19

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.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.