Met Police data shows that while there were 497 offences related to drink spiking in the capital in 2018, the number had risen more than 300 per cent, to 2,066 offences, by 2022.
Mr Desai, who represents Barking and Dagenham, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and the City of London, said the statistics are very worrying, especially as we know that it reflects only those incidents which have been reported the true figures are probably much higher.
There is no single offence that covers spiking. Instead, a range of more general offences can potentially be used to prosecute perpetrators, such as the offence of administering a substance with intent'. This means that the Met's data on spiking-related offences in London only provides a rough indication of the scale of the problem - and some crimes recorded in the figures will not involve spiking at all.
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