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Dundee district fiscal appointed
01/09/2003
New district fiscal for Dundee, Betty
Bott, takes up her post today and receives her commission
from Scotland's senior Law Officer, the Lord Advocate,
Colin Boyd QC.
Mrs Bott will hold a commission for
Dundee sheriff court district and will act as the personal
representative of the Lord Advocate on a day-to-day basis,
with responsibility for the investigation and prosecution
of crime and the investigation of sudden, suspicious and
unexplained deaths in Dundee
.
Colin Boyd said:
"I am delighted to announce the appointment of Betty
Bott as District Fiscal forDundee. By working with the committed and professional
staff at theDundeeoffice and in partnership with partners in the
criminal justice system, Betty will take forward the work
started by Nigel Orr to tackle crime and deliver an ever
improving service to theDundeecommunity."
She will work closely with Tayside
area procurator fiscal, Barry Heywood, who has full
management and budgetary responsibility for the Tayside
area.
Nigel Orr has been appointed as Head
of Appeals at Crown Office, Edinburgh.
Mrs Betty Bott joined the Crown Office
and Procurator Fiscal Service in 1977. She started as a
Depute in Stirling before moving to Dundee when she was
married in 1978.
Since then she has worked in a number of
offices across Scotland including Cupar, Perth, Kirkcaldy,
Arbroath, Glasgow, Inverness and Edinburgh.
Betty has close links with the Dundee
area - both she and her husband are graduates of Dundee
University and she taught in the Law Faculty at the
University for 18 years. Both their two sons were born in
Dundee. Mrs Bott is delighted to be returning to work in an
area with which she has had such close associations.
Mrs Bott has served on a number of
working groups looking at ways of assisting children and
other vulnerable people to give evidence and was a member
of the Scottish Partnership on Domestic Violence.
Before taking up her present appointment in
Edinburgh, Mrs Bott was the project manager of the
initiative which led to the introduction of the
department's Victim Information and Advice service.