FOI 442401

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 442401

I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 11th November 2025.  Please find below the response to your request:

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

This request concerns the operation of cannabis awareness courses by your police force. 

Please could you provide the following information. 

1. Does your police force offer drug awareness courses for people caught with possession of cannabis?

If so:

2. What year did the force commence operating these courses?
3. What was the cost of running this course in the 2025 calendar year to date?

4. Please state the number of times a person attended these courses in each calendar year from 2015 to
5. 2025 to date.
6. Please state how much money the force received from fees charged for these courses in each of the calendar
7. years from 2015 to 2025 to date.
8. Please state if the income from the courses is used for any specific purpose or whether it is returned
9. to general funds.
10. Please state the overall number of people who have received a diversionary, educational or intervention
11. outcome for cannabis possession in each of the calendar years from 2015 to 2025 to date.
12. Of persons who received a diversionary, educational or intervention outcome for cannabis possession
13. in the 2025 calendar year, please state the persons with the five largest number of previous diversionary, educational or intervention outcomes on their police record.
14.  

If information is not held for all years, please provide as many years as is available. 

If information is held in financial year format and not in calendar year format, please provide this. 

Reply

No information held. 

West Mercia police do not hold this information. You could try the OPCC -  [email protected]