ACCEPT: AlCohol screening and brief intervention in a police Custody suitEs setting: PiloT

INTERVENTION: Detention Officers at the included police stations will be randomised to deliver one of three conditions: 1. Screening only (no leaflet and no feedback) control group 2. screening and feedback followed immediately by 10 minutes of manualised brief structured advice about alcohol and its impact on health and offending behaviour 3. Screening and feedback followed by 10 minutes of brief structured advice plus the offer of a subsequent session of behaviour change counselling delivered by a trained Alcohol Health Worker. CONDITION: Public health; alcohol use disorders ; Mental and Behavioural Disorders PRIMARY OUTCOME: Feasibility and acceptability: Success criteria will be to successfully recruit and deliver interventions to 60 participants per condition (180 in total) at baseline and follow‐up at least 50% of these individuals at 12 months (90 in total). In addition, a definitive study could only be conducted if study procedures are found to be acceptable to both detention officers and arrestees which would be determined in the embedded qualitative work of the study (to take place concurrently, at 12 month follow up). SECONDARY OUTCOME: 1. Parameters for the design of a definitive cRCT of brief alcohol intervention, including rates of eligibility, consent, participation and retention at 6 and 12‐months; 2. Collection of cost and resource use data to inform the cost‐effectiveness/utility analysis in a definitive trial INCLUSION CRITERIA: Arrestees aged 18+ who are managed in the police custody setting.