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Number of monthly Drink/Drug Drive and Fail to Provide arrests - April 2015 to December 2024.

Provides the numbers of arrests and positive outcomes for possession of cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine and other drugs offences between June 2021 and June 2024 broken down by suspect ethnicity.

Confirmed that police training regarding controlled substances concentrates on legislation and powers rather than their effects.

Provided the number of arrests of children under 16 years for supplying controlled substances per year for 2017 to 2021.

The action to intercept or decision to intercept is not recorded in an extractable format, therefore, Essex Police are unable to accurately extract the level of detail requested without manual intervention.

The number of drug/drive blood/urine samples sent for forensic analysis from 2019 to 2021.

Essex Police does not hold data on drug testing on arrest for 2019 and 2020.

Provided the numbers of with cause drugs tests carried out in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Data relating to drug offences and arrests involving under 18's. 2015 to 2022.

Drug/Modern Slavery Act Offences at colleges, further education establishments, universities from 2015 to 2019. Including types of offences.