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Northern Ireland: Drug Seizures

Answer

The number of seizures and quantity of drugs seized by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in 2000–01 and 2004–05 are contained in the table below.

Drug Seizures by PSNI
	1 April 2004 to 13 March 2005			1 April 2000 to 31 March 2001
Drug Seized	Number of seizures	Amount seized	Number of seizures	Amount seized
Cocaine:
Powder	87	21.3 kgs	27	1.7 kgs
Wraps	3	24	0	0
LSD:
Doses	7	1,134	9	117
Microdots	2	7,012	2	201
Amphetamine:
Powder	147	79.1 kgs	51	3.9 kgs
Wraps	3	24	8	16

Data relating to the prosecution and conviction rates in respect of drug offences at all courts are currently available up to the year ending December 2003 and are contained in the table below.Prosecutions and Conviction Rates for Drug Offences at all courts 2000 to 20031

Year	Prosecutions	Convictions	Conviction Rate (%)2
2000	732	649	89
2001	539	470	87
2002	455	41S	91
2003	568	498	88
Source: Northern Ireland Office

Information relating to the number of prosecutions for drug offences in the Crown Courts in 2004–05 is contained below.

Persons proceeded against in respect of drugs offences in the Crown Courts 2004–05
Year	Number of Persons Proceeded Against	Number of Persons Convicted of at least one offence	Conviction Rate3
2004-05	243	224	96.6
1Figures are collated on a principal offence basis, thus, where a person is being dealt with for more than one offence at the same court sitting, only the most serious offence (that attracting the most severe court penalty) is included in the statistics.       2Conviction rate based on number of guilty findings as a proportion of all proceedings resulted in each calendar year.       3Calculation of conviction rate excludes cases withdrawn.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2035; 675 c162-3WA

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Convictions Northern Ireland Prosecutions Cocaine Drug seizures Amphetamines LSD

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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