It’s difficult to track how many people are arrested for driving on suspended or otherwise inactive licenses — and even more difficult to learn how many multiple offenders are out there because the state Department of Motor Vehicles’ computer database is old and not easily searchable for such data. The state’s court records are also not easily searchable for such data.

As The Providence Journal sought to determine how many people were arrested last year for driving on suspended licenses, Johnston and Scituate police departments pored over their arrest records and tallied how many multiple offenders they had arrested.

Elsewhere around the state, a sampling of police departments tallied the total number of arrests they made. The Rhode Island State Police report 1,634 arrests; Providence, 1,111; South Kingstown, 160; and Warwick, 706. Some of those arrests are the same individual more than once.

JOHNSTON

POLICE DEPARTMENT

Number of arrests: 216

142 were for a first offense

39, a second offense

14, a third offense

10, a fourth offense

4, a fifth offense

2, a sixth offense

2, a seventh offense

2, an eighth offense

1, a ninth offense

SCITUATE

POLICE DEPARTMENT

Number of arrests: 52

24 were for a first offense

19, between 2 and 4 offenses

6, between 5 and 10 offenses

1, more than 10 offenses

2, had past cases expunged

Compiled by Journal staff writer Kate Bramson, with figures provided by individual police departments