FOI 8944-25 QR Stickers Promoting Drug Sales

Request to Northamptonshire Police

Please can advise whether your force has received reports / complaints about QR code stickers / adverts promoting drug sales in public places, in the two years to the end of March 2025.

If so, how many incidents have been reported?
Please outline the locations, if possible.
How many arrests have you made in connection with these stickers?
Please outline the nature of the arrest, and whether any arrests have resulted in a charge.

Response

After conducting reasonable searches, I can confirm that Northamptonshire Police does not hold the information requested.

Our analysts have manually searched our incident recording system using the terms below: -

‘QR Code’, ‘QR sticker’, ‘drug advert’, ‘advertising drug’ and ‘promoting drug’ all of which yielded no results.