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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NOs: West Mercia Police 11528 and Warwickshire Police 11529
I write in connection with your requests for information which were received on 28th March 2019. Please find below the responses to your requests for West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police information:
1) How many arrests have your police force made for the offences of a) supplying controlled drugs or b) possession with intent to supply controlled drugs in the last six calendar years (2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018)?
Please can say how old the person arrested was, their gender and the drugs alleged to have been involved. I am trying to establish the number of people under the age of 18 involved in drug sales.
To do this I need total number of arrests, so I can work out how big a proportion are younger. I do not require any other identifying information. If you cannot give details of the gender then please still provide details of age.
Response:
I can now advise you that searches of the Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police systems have been made for arrest offences that contain the wording the requester has provided which is "Supply controlled drugs" and "possession with intent to supply".
Please note, the spreadsheets provided show a row for each arrest. As some people are arrested for more than one crime the first column contains reference numbers from 1 upwards. If the number is the same as the row preceding it that means it is the same person