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Drugs: East Sussex

Answer

The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts in the Sussex police force area for drug offences, from 2000 to 2007 (latest available) can be viewed in the following table.Information held centrally cannot be broken down sufficiently to supply data for East Sussex, therefore Sussex police force area data have been provided in lieu.Data for 2008 are planned for publication on 28 January 2010.

Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for drug offences, Sussex police force area 2000 to 2007¹, ²
	Proceeded against	Found guilty
2000	1,009	818
2001	1,306	1,081
2002	1,383	1,179
2003	1,164	1,075
2004	974	861
2005	1,162	1,026
2006	1,166	1,013
2007	1,317	1,141
¹ The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
² Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

503 c544W; 308460

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Drugs East Sussex

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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