During the meeting on 19 March 2015, South Wales Police agreed to provide the Committee with figures on:
· the number of arrests and/or offences where alcohol was a contributory factor; and
· figures on call demand and incident demand over a given week.
The Committee has received the following information:
Dyfed- Powys- February 2014 to January 2015
|
Total Reported Occurrences |
Occurrences with Arrests |
All Occurrences |
|
|
Drug Related |
|
1,683 |
Alcohol Related |
|
1,109 |
Drug and Alcohol Related |
2,512 |
2,148 |
Random week selected – 3rd – 9th November 2014
Priority |
Total incidents |
Alcohol related |
Drugs related |
Alcohol & Drugs related |
% Alcohol & Drugs related |
Priority 1 |
497 |
58 |
13 |
71 |
14.30% |
Priority 2 |
610 |
34 |
14 |
48 |
7.90% |
Total |
1,107 |
92 |
27 |
119 |
10.70% |
MAJOR CAVEAT – All alcohol and drugs data relating to offences and occurrences is totally dependent on the extent to which the appropriate qualifiers are completed. So it is acknowledged that the %s will be significant under-counts compared to the true situation.
Gwent- February 2014 to January 2015
|
Total no. of arrests and/or offences |
Drug Related |
1760 |
Alcohol Related |
1797 |
Despite looking into the request for figures on call demand and incident demand over a given week Gwent's Niche administrator has highlights some of the difficulties:
There is no obvious
location on the custody record to record this other than free text
fields that we would have to search for the word
‘alcohol’, ‘drug’ etc.
The custody risk assessment contains questions regarding whether
the person has consumed alcohol or has a dependency, but this
doesn’t necessarily indicate that alcohol/drugs were a
contributing factor to the arrest.
The occurrence MO and/or Stats Classification could potentially
also contain this information but I'm aware this is not always the
case and it is not always recorded.
To include results for all of the above locations would require the
complication of several searches, the results wouldn’t
produce a very reliable report and would require extensive cleaning
up before it could be disseminated.
This is an example of one of the more obvious locations on the
occurrence to record this information. This can currently only be
completed by the Crime Management Unit.
There are 3148 Gwent occurrences where substance use has been
recorded on the Stats Class as shown below.
Reporting on occurrences where this has been recorded would be
relatively simple but I suspect would only tell half a
story.
North Wales- February 2014 to January 2015
|
Recorded |
Occurrences with Arrests |
Drug Related |
433 |
999 |
Alcohol Related |
3,187 |
1,487 |
Drug and Alcohol Related |
239 |
165 |
Incidents in a given week
Fiscal Year Week |
Incident Code |
No of Incidents |
2014/43 |
0- Emergency Response |
752 |
2014/43 |
1- Prompt Response |
1370 |
|
Sum: |
2122 |
Fiscal Year Week |
NSIRTAG Description |
No. of Incidents |
2014/43 |
Alcohol |
1 |
2014/43 |
Drugs |
4 |
There were 2122 incidents reported in the 43rd week of 2014. Only 5 incidents were tagged on the electronic system as being alcohol or drug related. As per the caveat below this is very unlikely to be a true representation of incidents involving alcohol and substance misuse; however these are the results and it is not practical to review each incident individual. Having spoken to North Wales the tagging system has recently changed to make searching in future easier.
MAJOR CAVEAT – All alcohol and drugs data relating to offences and occurrences is totally dependent on the extent to which the appropriate qualifiers are completed. So it is acknowledged that the %s will be significant under-counts compared to the true situation.
South Wales- February 2014 to January 2015
|
Total Reported Occurrences |
Total Reported Occurrences % |
Occurrences with Arrests |
Occurrences with Arrests % |
All Occurrences |
406,664 |
406,664 |
28,780 |
28,780 |
Drug Related |
12,278 |
3.0% |
2,335 |
8.1% |
Alcohol Related |
29,938 |
7.4% |
7,652 |
26.6% |
Drug and Alcohol Related |
2,303 |
0.6% |
528 |
1.8% |
Total Arrests |
Total Arrests % |
32,667 |
32,667 |
2,818 |
8.6% |
8,409 |
25.7% |
568 |
1.7% |
The above relate to arrests involving alcohol, drugs and alcohol and drugs. As you will see there is a difference in the occurrences with arrests and total arrest columns. The reason for this being e.g. a car may be stopped and 4 persons arrested for drugs, the occurrence with arrest will only count as 1 however the total arrests will be 4.
Random week selected – 25th- 31st January 2015
G1s |
G2s |
G3s |
G4s |
No grade |
Grand Total |
1,585 |
2,052 |
2,349 |
878 |
40 |
6,904 |
PSC 999 |
PSC 999 s/board |
PSC Bluelight |
PSC English |
PSC Welsh |
PSC 390 |
PSC non select |
PSC officer |
PSC 0500 |
Grand Total |
2,840 |
25 |
899 |
7,714 |
19 |
458 |
685 |
1,528 |
5 |
14,173 |
The above table shows the number of way in which calls were received. Part of the reason for the difference between the 2 tables would be because not all calls would result in a new occurrence being created (such as calls for updates by members of the public, calls to update existing occurrences by officers etc). However, as the figures are based on the total calls received, not every call would have been answered (for example, of the 7,714 PSC English Calls, 7,647 or 99.1% were answered)
It has not been possible to break the figures down further (into alcohol/ substance misuse) for the same reasons highlighted by North Wales.
MAJOR CAVEAT – All alcohol and drugs data relating to offences and occurrences is totally dependent on the extent to which the appropriate qualifiers are completed. So it is acknowledged that the %s will be significant under-counts compared to the true situation.