Further to the answer to question S3W-16814 by Kenny MacAskill on 21 October 2008, how many test purchases of alcohol were carried out in 2…

The use of test purchasing is an operational decision for each police force. We understand that test purchasing is intelligence-led and deployed in premises with a perceived problem of sales of alcohol to those under the age of 18.
The following table provides information on test purchases carried out in off-sales and on-sales obtained from the police based on the latest available returns.
Police Force Area
| Off Sales
Tested
| Off Sales
1st Failure
| Off Sales
2nd Failure
| On Sales Tested
| On Sales 1st Failure
| On Sales 2nd Failure

Central
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0

Fife
| 118
| 17
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0

Grampian
| 41
| 6
| 1
| 10
| 8
| 1

Lothian and Borders
| 166
| 19
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0

Northern
| 40
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0

Strathclyde
| 363
| 43
| 0
| 3
| 0
| 0

Note: Figures are not available for Dumfries and Galloway and Tayside Police Forces.