Drug/Drunk Driving - 1021/19

Date Responded 20 September 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:

I would like the annual figures for drug driving and drink driving offences since 2010 within the Northumbria force area:

The annual figures of drivers arrested for drink driving
The annual figures of drivers charged for drink driving
The annual figures of drivers arrested for drug driving
The annual figures of drivers charged for drug driving

In Response:

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.

To note there are some HO codes that get used which state unclear if drink or drugs. These have been excluded from our responses to the questions above, but supplied as separate tables underneath for reference labelled “Additional”.

It should also be noted at the data supplied for 2019 is to 1 July 2019.

Month	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Total
Jan	63	48	68	39	37	47	43	33	30	33	441
Feb	41	44	44	34	28	42	50	35	34	26	378
Mar	50	48	48	44	53	53	34	26	26	47	429
Apr	51	40	47	47	46	38	44	35	40	43	431
May	60	46	43	52	41	34	55	31	39	50	451
Jun	56	35	45	37	52	50	42	37	40	51	445
Jul	49	46	54	46	42	43	55	30	40	53	458
Aug	62	46	61	39	44	65	42	46	36		441
Sep	49	42	44	52	46	43	31	35	37		379
Oct	60	52	42	49	56	25	32	32	37		385
Nov	53	49	45	49	46	44	41	33	27		387
Dec	43	59	30	49	46	49	44	32	44		396
Total	637	555	571	537	537	533	513	405	430	303	5,021

Month	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Total
Jan	49	45	55	31	29	34	34	27	24	27	355
Feb	34	32	33	30	22	30	39	29	28	16	293
Mar	39	38	44	39	48	41	27	23	21	38	358
Apr	42	35	41	35	40	34	36	28	29	28	348
May	45	31	36	43	33	27	45	25	28	32	345
Jun	46	29	34	34	45	36	35	25	32	36	352
Jul	42	39	46	39	36	30	44	25	34	36	371
Aug	50	36	47	31	35	52	33	40	31		355
Sep	41	33	39	48	37	36	24	28	29		315
Oct	45	46	32	41	42	20	27	28	27		308
Nov	40	39	33	39	35	38	34	25	22		305
Dec	37	45	23	42	38	43	35	28	35		326
Total	510	448	463	452	440	421	413	331	340	213	4,031

Month	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Total
Jan	2	5	5	1	1	1	31	17	16	16	95
Feb	1	5	2	3	3	3	29	19	12	10	87
Mar	4	4	2	3	7	5	16	28	13	14	96
Apr	1	2	3	3	2	9	16	30	11	13	90
May	0	1	2	0	2	8	14	35	9	16	87
Jun	2	4	2	5	1	10	20	37	11	12	104
Jul	3	3	1	2	2	7	22	33	11	28	112
Aug	5	2	4	1	2	3	10	10	13		50
Sep	2	5	2	2	3	11	10	14	10		59
Oct	3	5	0	5	0	6	32	22	9		82
Nov	2	5	2	2	1	15	34	18	8		87
Dec	2	2	2	2	3	22	18	22	13		86
Total	27	43	27	29	27	100	252	285	136	109	1,035

Month	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Total
Jan	2	2	4	0	1	1	22	11	11	13	67
Feb	0	1	1	3	2	1	23	11	11	8	61
Mar	1	2	2	3	4	2	11	20	10	9	64
Apr	1	2	2	3	2	4	12	20	8	7	61
May	0	0	1	0	1	7	7	26	6	2	50
Jun	1	2	1	3	0	5	11	26	8	5	62
Jul	3	1	0	1	1	5	16	26	10	11	74
Aug	3	1	3	1	1	2	6	7	9		33
Sep	0	2	2	2	2	8	7	11	9		43
Oct	3	2	0	4	0	2	22	20	8		61
Nov	1	4	2	1	1	11	24	9	7		60
Dec	1	2	2	1	3	13	15	16	11		64
Total	16	21	20	22	18	61	176	203	108	55	700

Additional

The annual figures of drivers arrested with HO codes Unclear whether drink or drugs in the years specified by your request within the Northumbria force area are as follows:

	Unclear whether drink or drugs
Month	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Total
Jan	44	40	49	31	35	38	34	22	24	26	343
Feb	39	35	36	28	22	34	43	34	30	29	330
Mar	33	40	37	36	39	47	29	24	23	47	355
Apr	41	31	38	36	41	37	38	27	26	34	349
May	53	37	30	38	38	27	47	22	37	35	364
Jun	45	33	34	31	47	51	38	27	33	35	374
Jul	43	30	45	39	36	40	42	23	28	40	366
Aug	32	39	56	32	39	54	26	33	26		337
Sep	44	28	41	44	34	38	31	29	28		317
Oct	39	37	31	37	46	26	27	29	32		304
Nov	46	39	33	37	37	34	36	23	18		303
Dec	34	41	34	37	43	33	37	19	35		313
Total	493	430	464	426	457	459	428	312	340	246	4,055

The annual figures of drivers charged with HO codes Unclear whether drink or drugs in the years specified by your request within the Northumbria force area are as follows:

	Unclear whether drink or drugs
Month	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Total
Jan	34	34	36	22	24	26	25	17	20	19	257
Feb	29	24	25	25	17	26	33	28	23	19	249
Mar	25	30	34	31	34	38	21	18	18	34	283
Apr	33	26	32	27	33	32	32	20	20	23	278
May	37	25	24	33	31	21	36	15	26	24	272
Jun	37	25	25	26	38	38	33	19	24	25	290
Jul	35	26	38	30	31	28	32	20	23	25	288
Aug	25	27	41	25	31	45	19	26	22		261
Sep	34	24	36	40	30	31	23	22	24		264
Oct	28	28	21	31	36	23	21	22	23		233
Nov	33	32	26	28	27	30	28	17	15		236
Dec	28	30	26	28	33	30	29	17	26		247
Total	378	331	364	346	365	368	332	241	264	169	3,158

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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