"We believe that Scottish families and communities can be safer. That is why we are focused as never before on improving housing and neighbourhoods, fighting crime, reducing the fear of crime and on making Scotland's communities safer."
(Principles and Priorities: The Government's Programme for Scotland)
Legislation
Non-Legislation Priorities
- Will work with police forces to increase policing capacity through the deployment of the equivalent of 1,000 additional police officers
- Will continue developing a new drugs strategy - and extend the most successful elements of drug treatment and testing orders to lower level offenders
- Will continue to take forward proposals on a cross-party basis to strengthen controls on sex offenders, including greater protection for communities, through implementation of the National Accommodation Strategy for Sex Offenders