§ Mr. Willeyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of persons stopped and searched during 1972 for drugs controlled 419W under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1965 or the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act 1964 given separately for each of the police forces which have provided information.
§ Mr. CarlisleThe information is as follows:
Force No. of persons stopped and searched Bedfordshire and Luton 142 Birmingham City 161 Bradford City 123 Bristol City 110 Cheshire 462 Cumbria 284 Derby County and Borough 135 Devon and Cornwall 619 Dorset and Bournemouth 332 Durham 185 Dyfed-Powys 82 Essex and Southend-on-Sea 133 Gloucestershire 257 Gwent 114 Gwynedd 146 Hampshire 1,361 Hertfordshire 1,343 Kent 1,012 Kingston upon Hull 145 Lancashire 850 Leeds City 38 Leicester and Rutland 124 Lincolnshire 566 Liverpool and Bootle 143 City of London 108 Manchester and Salford 315 Metropolitan 12,939 Mid-Anglia 437 Norfolk 165 Northampton and County 297 Northumberland 481 Nottinghamshire 171 Sheffield and Rotherham 191 Somerset and Bath 789 South Wales 303 Staffordshire County and Stoke on Trent 52 Suffolk 61 Surrey 599 Sussex 678 Teesside 51 Thames Valley 1,294 Warwickshire and Coventry 725 West Mercia 382 West Midlands 338 West Yorkshire 468 Wiltshire 86 York and North East Yorkshire 95