It comes as three Britons have been found guilty of drug offences in the UAE.
Police also recorded five alleged drug offences and reports will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
Other notifiable offences - includes fraud and forgery, blackmail, drug offences, and dangerous driving.
There are 400, 000 Americans behind bars for drug offences, eight times the number 19 years ago.
Three people hospitalised after taking an unidentified white powder have been arrested on suspicion of drug offences.
The number of recorded drug offences fell by 21%, while cases of criminal damage dropped by 6%.
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Three British men have been found guilty of drug offences in Dubai and jailed for four years each.
Court records show that Matt, the person who informed on Horner, had a lengthy record of drug offences.
There was a 35% increase in recorded fraud and forgery cases and drug offences were up by 16%.
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In August he was fined for traffic and drug offences only hours after being released early from jail.
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Louisiana's legislators recently approved a bill to cut prison sentences for some drug offences and other non-violent crimes.
The yacht's captain, Thomas Dylik, 48, has already admitted drug offences in relation to the haul, it was heard.
Tracy Cameron was allowed to address the judge in the case of her son Grant, who is on trial for drug offences.
The English Democrat candidate for Lincolnshire police commissioner has pledged to cut crime in the county by 25% by targeting drug offences.
Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of drug offences following the deaths of two young people in Derbyshire in the run-up to Christmas.
The ringleader of a Liverpool gang convicted of arson and firearms and drug offences has been jailed for 20 years, plus five years on licence.
Most of the 40 foreigners currently on death row in Indonesia have been convicted of drug offences, according to Australia's Lowy Institute for International Policy.
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In County Durham, after police changed their methods three years ago, arrests for all drug offences rose from 848 in 1995 to 1, 228 in 1997.
Nearly half of all drug offences already attract merely a caution.
They apply to 30 serious crimes - including murder, rape, Class A drug offences and war crimes - but double jeopardy remains in force for lesser offences.
More than 400, 000 people are now imprisoned for drug offences, a larger number than those in prison for all crimes in England, France, Germany and Japan combined.
Mrs Sandiford faces three drug offences in Bali, after she allegedly smuggled the drug on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand, to Bali in the lining of her suitcase.
The father-of-two said he contacted Dylik - who has already admitted drug offences in connection with the case - on the internet and did not know him prior to the trip.
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Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences, for example, have been a double disaster, diverting a lot of money from the war on serious crime and turning huge numbers of minor miscreants into hardened criminals.
Mr Tarantini, suspected of drug offences as well as aiding and abetting prostitution, was held on September 18th at the behest of a prosecutor who claimed there was a risk he might flee or tamper with evidence.
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This means combining the traditional conservative message of small government with an anti-authoritarian appeal to stoners - Sen Paul went out of his way to say that people should not be put in prison for non-violent drug offences.
The food-stamp programme has a rule limiting able-bodied, childless adults to three months on food stamps every three years but it is suspended at times of high unemployment, leaving only recent immigrants and those convicted of drug offences to go hungry.
On Wednesday we got a taste of the kind of crimes this president is prepared to forgive and forget - he issued 14 pardons and commuted two prison sentences - cases of minor fraud, drug offences and over the killing an American bald eagle, a protected species.
Some 42, 000 people in England and Wales are sentenced annually for drug possession offences and about 160, 000 given cannabis warnings, it says, which "amounts to a lot of time and money for police, prosecution and courts".
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