It is a criminal offence to misuse a fire extinguisher.
There are around 600 offences under misuse of drugs laws, but there is estimated to be several thousand legal highs, or new psychoactive substances.
The ONS also published its second ever estimate of online crime, which it put at 5.6m fraud and computer misuse offences, confirming its high volume on a level comparable with offline crime.
On Friday night Scotland Yard said: "Following that assessment, which included obtaining early investigative advice from the Crown Prosecution Service, the Metropolitan police service is now investigating offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
Although he agreed to plead guilty to computer misuse offences in the UK, where his punishment would probably have been a fine and community service, he is being zealously pursued by US authorities still locked in a 9/11 mindset over "cyber-terrorism" and embarrassed by the ease with which he entered the systems.
2) What are the identifiable risk needs factors for non-alcohol dependent women who commit offences involving alcohol misuse?
He was arrested on suspicion of a Computer Misuse Act offence and released on bail pending further inquiries.
But it is clear on hacking: unauthorised access to computer material is an offence under S1 Computer Misuse Act 1990, punishable by up to two years imprisonment.
Police arrested Wyatt, a website designer, at an address in Northamptonshire late on Saturday on suspicion of a Computer Misuse Act offence.
Related: Handful of UK spies accessed private information inappropriately, ISC says May, a retired appeal judge, pointed out that accessing GCHQ's computers for an unauthorised purpose could amount to an offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, though he did not go so far as to say that a prosecution should have been brought.
