This interactive map shows: where are Britons most likely to get arrested? Which British embassies and consulates are busiest? Where are the drug arrests? Where are Britons most likely to get into trouble?
The key figures from the report, which bring together the 19,228 calls for help last year, show that:
- Total arrests in the 12 months ending March 2011 reached 5,700 - a reduction on 6,439 in 2009/10 and well down on the 2008/09 total of 6,919
- Arrests of Britons for drugs offences overseas were 799 in 2010/11 - almost 20% down on the 2009/10 figure of 994
- The number who needed to go to hospital abroad in 2010/11 reached 3,752 - slightly up on the 2009/10 total of 3,689
- Britons raped abroad fell from 132 in 2009/10 to 115 in 2010/11, but sexual assaults increased from 140 to 163
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