Last year 12% of people arrested for driving over the limit in Northern Ireland were from two eastern European countries, the BBC has learned.
Using a Freedom of Information request the BBC found that in the last year 2,301 people were arrested for being over the legal drink-drive limit.
Of those 4% were Polish and 8% Lithuanian. Overall they account for no more than about 1% of NI's population.
Nearly three quarters arrested were from NI and 8% from the Republic.
DRINK DRIVE (BREATH)
Canada - 4
Czech Republic - 10
Hungary - 6
India - 6
Iran - 2
Ireland - 173
Latvia - 21
Lithuania - 187
Poland - 81
Portugal - 38
Russian Federatiion - 6
Slovakia - 9
South Africa - 10
Ukraine - 13
Zimbabwe - 3 Figures from PSNI
The investigation, by BBC Northern Ireland's Newsline programme suggests there is a major problem with drink driving in some of Northern Ireland's immigrant communities.
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Friday, 27 July 2007
2,301 people were arrested for being over the legal drink-drive limit.
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