Thames Valley Police confirm 16,000 arrests and 711 deaths in six months

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Thames Valley Police has released new data showing that 711 people died tragically over a six-month period. New statistics from the force, which covers April 2023 to September 30 2023, shows 16,000 people were arrested during the same time period.

During those six months 500,000 people contacted the police in the policing area.

over 16,000 people were arrested in the area

Also, Thames Valley Police located 3,290 missing people. Over the same time period police attended 3,228 road traffic collisions. In total, 1,007 arrests were made relating to drink driving, 1,220 for driving whilst distracted by a mobile phone and 1,862 people were arrested for not wearing a seatbelt.

Thames Valley Police has revealed that distraction offences such as driving while using a mobile phone, have increased by 78 per cent, while seatbelt offences are up by 72 per cent when compared with the same six month period of last year. A total of 48,794 speeding offences were recorded by officers in camera vans, while 38,821 were detected by cameras.