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Nitrous Oxide incidents from January 2018 to September 2021

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.022624

I note you seek access to the following information:

How many Nitrous Oxide related offences have there been over the past 3 years (up to September 2021)?

If you could break this down by year (Ctrl-F ing for NOS or nitrous oxide in the crime reports flagged under as Offences related to the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016).

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I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

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A manual review of offences recorded under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 was conducted in order to determine whether the relevant substance was Nitrous Oxide. There were 84 offences where Nitrous Oxide was specifically mentioned in the crime report. 10 additional offences were identified that did not specifically mention Nitrous Oxide, but which are likely to relate to Nitrous Oxide.

  2018  2019  2020  2021*  Grand Total
Nitrous Oxide related Offences  25  23  25  11  84

*Note 2021 is January to September only, so should not be compared to other complete calendar years.