Reported Cases of Drunkenness

Mr Yee Jenn Jong asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs over the past three years (a) how many incidents related to drunkenness have been reported to the police; (b) how many of these incidents involved foreign workers; (c) how many of these incidents were in the Little India vicinity; and (d) which were the three localities with the highest incidence of reported drunkenness.

There are many types of incidents that may be related to alcohol. Police do not actively track if each reported incident is alcohol-induced. For the offence of drunkenness in public places under section 18 of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, the number of reported incidents in the past years are as follows:

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Police have not collated data on drunkenness by locality or nationality. The location of an incident of reported drunkenness may also not correspond with the origin of alcohol consumption.