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Police Alcohol/Drug Related Incidents

Incidents involving alcohol and/or drugs requiring police response have decreased

Incidents requiring a police response that also involved alcohol and/or drugs have decreased.

• In 2021, 12% of all police incident reports involved alcohol and/or drugs (3,950), compared to 17% of police incident reports involving alcohol and/or drugs in 2016.
• In 2021:
• Drugs were involved in 5.2% of all police incident reports.
• Alcohol was involved in 5.6% of all police incident reports.
• Both alcohol and drugs were involved in 1.6% of all police incident reports.