Dear Birmingham Conservatoire,

Please can you answer the following freedom of information request:

BACKGROUND INFO:

According to Police UK: Spiking is when someone puts alcohol or drugs into another person’s drink or body without their consent or knowledge.

People can also be a victim of ‘needle spiking’, which is injecting someone with drugs without their consent.

Spiking can happen to anyone, anywhere and can be carried out by strangers or people you know.

Spiking someone could be a number of criminal offences, which can carry sentences of up to ten years in prison; even when no other offence, like theft or assault, has happened.

Link: https://www.police.uk/advice/advice-and-...

MY REQUEST

1 - Please can you provide the total number of spiking allegations received by your university in the following calendar years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Note: Please include all drink and/or needle spiking allegations in your response.

I look forward to receiving your response within 20 working days.

Yours faithfully,

russell scott