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The number of young persons under the age of 18 years issued with a reprimand or final warning by certain age groups for the offence purchase of alcohol by an individual under 18 by police force areas in England and Wales for the years 2002 to 2006(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
	Reprimands/Final Warnings
Force and age group	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Avon and Somerset
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Bedfordshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Cambridgeshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Cheshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
City of London
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Cleveland
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	1	1	-	-	-
16-17	-	1	-	-	-
Cumbria
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	1	2	1	-
16-17	4	2	9	4	1
Derbyshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-16	-	1	-	-	-
Devon and Cornwall
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Dorset
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	1
Durham
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	1	-	-	1
Essex
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	1	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Gloucestershire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Greater Manchester
10-13	1	-	-	-	-
14-15	2	-	-	-	-
16-17	4	-	-	-	-
Hampshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	1	-	-	1
Hertfordshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	1	-	-	-	-
Humberside
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Kent
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Lancashire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	1	-	-	-
Leicestershire
10-13	-	1	-	-	-
14-15	-	1	-	-	-
16-17	1	-	-	-	-
Lincolnshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Merseyside
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	4	-	-
Metropolitan Police
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Norfolk
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
North Yorkshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	1	-	2	-	2
Northamptonshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Northumbria
10-13	-	1	-	-	-
14-15	-	4	1	2	1
16-17	3	-	2	7	1
Nottinghamshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
South Yorkshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	1	-	1
16-17	-	-	-	1	-
Staffordshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	2	-	-	1
16-17	-	1	-	2	-
Suffolk
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	1	-	-	-	-
Surrey
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	1	-
Sussex
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	1	-
16-17	1	1	-	-	-
Thames Valley
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Warwickshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
West Marcia
10-13	-	-	-	-	1
14-15	-	-	3	-	-
16-17	-	-	2	-	-
West Midlands
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-1.5	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
West Yorkshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Wiltshire
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	3	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
Dyfed-Powys
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	3	-	-	-
16-17	-	4	5	-	-
Gwent
10-13	-	1	-	-	-
14-15	1	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
North Wales
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
South Wales
10-13	-	-	-	-	-
14-15	-	-	-	-	-
16-17	-	-	-	-	-
England and Wales
10-13	1	3	0	0	1
14-15	5	12	7	7	3
16-17	16	12	25	15	7

- Nil

(1) Data include the following offence descriptions and corresponding statutes:

Person under 18 buying or attempting to buy or consuming intoxicating liquor.

Person under 18 buying or consuming intoxicating liquor in licensed premises.

Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983, schedule, paragraph 3(4)(2). Licensing Act 1964, Section 169(2).

Purchase of alcohol by an individual under 18. Licensing Act 2003 Section 149(1)(7a).

(2) These data are on the principal offence basis.

(3) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and final warnings. Reprimands and final warnings are included in the above data.

(4) The Licensing Act 2003 came into force on 24 November 2005.

(5) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts, other agencies, and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Source: Court proceedings data held by CJEAU—Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice

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