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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.2.6 Persons in Formal Contact for: Acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs (ICCS 06)
Total of Persons brought into Formal Contact with the Police and/or the criminal justice system for the criminal offences defined as “acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs” in Section 06 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.63-67. Those include: Unlawful acts involving controlled drugs or precursors (0601), which includes unlawful possession, purchase, use, cultivation or production of controlled drugs for personal consumption (06011), and unlawful trafficking, cultivation or production of controlled drugs or precursors not for personal consumption (06012); Unlawful acts involving alcohol, tobacco or other controlled substances (0602); Other acts involving controlled drugs or other psychoactive substances (0609), and subcategories of these, as also listed on pp. 26-27 of the ICCS Controlled drugs are narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances scheduled as such under the 1961. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended, and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (ICCS, p.63, footnote 98) "FORMAL CONTACT" may include persons suspected, or arrested, or cautioned, for a criminal offence, at the national level. [Source: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas20211,483 
Barbados2021375 
Belize------ 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada202129,997 
Chile20217,226 
Colombia202148,567 
Costa Rica2017800 
Dominica202137 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador202112,716 
El Salvador20213,034 
Grenada2021343 
Guatemala20211,943 
Guyana2021486 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico2021108,321 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama201953 
Paraguay20171,182 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202123 
Saint Lucia------ 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019239 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States20191,558,862 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America20181,750,940 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).