FOI 18647-25 Drugs Blood Tests by Year
Request to Northamptonshire Police
For each of the respective years 2025-26 to date, 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22 and 2020-21 can I please ask for the following:
Question 1. The number of blood tests sent to a lab for testing, taken from suspects, suspected of driving under the influence of drugs?
Question 2. How many of these tests took under one month to be returned with a result?
Question 3. How many of these tests took between one to three months to be returned with a result?
Question 4. How many of these tests took between three to six months to be returned with a result?
Question 5. How many of these tests took over six months to be returned with a result?
Question 6. How many of these tests were ‘lost’ or were never returned with a result?
Response
Question 1
|
Year |
Total |
|---|---|
|
2020 |
185 |
|
2021 |
132 |
|
2022 |
127 |
|
2023 |
271 |
|
2024 |
349 |
|
2025 to present |
231 |
Questions 2 – 5
|
Year |
Total Submitted |
Results within 1m |
Results within 3m |
Results within 6m |
Results after 6m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2020 |
185 |
13 |
134 |
38 |
0 |
|
2021 |
132 |
4 |
96 |
32 |
0 |
|
2022 |
127 |
8 |
80 |
39 |
0 |
|
2023 |
271 |
11 |
137 |
123 |
0 |
|
2024 |
349 |
15 |
112 |
222 |
0 |
|
2025 |
231 |
64 |
162 |
5 |
0 |
Question 6
There were no instances where these tests were ‘lost’ or returned without a result.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.
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