Chart: Seizures of the most harmful drugs at UK borders are falling

Crime and justice chart of the week
Author

Matt Ashby

Published

2 Dec 2019

Border Force is responsible for seizing drugs at ports, airports and international parcels depots. However, reports by the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration suggest drug-detection efforts are hindered by understaffing, lack of training and focus on conducting passport checks on travellers. Most drug seizures are of small amounts: only 19% of seizures involve more than one kilogram of drugs.

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Data source: Home Office, 2018

For estimates of the relative harmfulness of different controlled drugs, see ‘Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis’ by Nutt et al.

Reports on Border Force can be found on the website of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.