Crack cocaine seizure sizes England & Wales 2018

This statistic shows the size of crack cocaine seizures by police forces in England and Wales in 2017/18. The majority of such seizures were of amounts less than 1 gram. There were five seizures of between 1 and 10 kilograms. There were a total of 5,825 crack seizures over this twelve month period.

Number of crack cocaine seizures by police forces in England and Wales in 2017/18, by amount

Characteristic	Number of seizures*
Under 1g	3,353
1g to 500g	2,458
500g to 1kg	9
1kg to 10kg	5
10kg to 100kg	0
100kg and over	0

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Release date

November 2018

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Region

United Kingdom (England, Wales)

Survey time period

April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2018

Supplementary notes

*Where the quantity of a seizure is recorded as 'trace' it is not included in these figures.
Includes seizures made by British Transport Police (BTP).
In 2016/17 Kent were unable to supply reliable estimates. Imputation methods have been used to estimate the 2016/17 data for this force.
This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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