Home Department written question – answered at on 10 March 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people (a) were arrested and (b) received on-the-spot fines for possession of cannabis in West Chelmsford constituency in each of the last five years.
The information requested on arrests is not collected centrally.
The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, which includes the category of drug offences.
From these centrally reported data we are not able to identify specific offences from within the main offence groups.
The offence of possession of cannabis was added to the penalty notice for disorder (PND) scheme on
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