2025/29074 - Drug Awareness Course
REQUEST
This request concerns the operation of cannabis awareness courses by your police force.
Please could you provide the following information.
- Does your police force offer drug awareness courses for people caught with possession of cannabis?
If so:
- What year did the force commence operating these courses?
- What was the cost of running this course in the 2025 calendar year to date?
- Please state the number of times a person attended these courses in each calendar year from 2015 to 2025 to date.
- Please state how much money the force received from fees charged for these courses in each of the calendar
- years from 2015 to 2025 to date.
- Please state if the income from the courses is used for any specific purpose or whether it is returned
- to general funds.
- Please state the overall number of people who have received a diversionary, educational or intervention
- outcome for cannabis possession in each of the calendar years from 2015 to 2025 to date.
- Of persons who received a diversionary, educational or intervention outcome for cannabis possession
- in the 2025 calendar year, please state the persons with the five largest number of previous diversionary, educational or intervention outcomes on their police record.
If information is not held for all years, please provide as many years as is available.
If information is held in financial year format and not in calendar year format, please provide this.
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