Area Inspection: Grampian

Appendix 1 Breakdown of Statistics for Grampian Area¹⁹

Table 1 - Input October 2005 to September 2007:

	Criminal reports received	Total reports received	Criminal reports received	Total reports received	Criminal reports received	Total reports received
	Oct 2005 - Sep 2006		Oct 2006 - Sep 2007		% change
Grampian	21655	22711	22853	23894	6%	5%
PFS	320782	340503	322475	341425	1%	0%
Aberdeen	13327	14119	14123	14855	6%	5.2%
Banff	815	851	873	901	7.1%	5.9%
Elgin	3166	3291	3337	3478	5.4%	5.7%
Peterhead	2569	2643	2596	2713	1.1%	2.6%
Stonehaven	1778	1807	1924	1947	8.2%	7.7%

Table 2 - Petition Cases October 2005 to September 2007:

	No of cases placed on petition	Number of cases reduced to summary	Net Petitions	No of cases placed on petition	Number of cases reduced to summary	Net Petitions	No of cases placed on petition	No of cases reduced to summary	Net Petitions
	Oct 2005 - Sep 2006			Oct 2006 - Sep 2007			% change
Grampian	737	107	630	839	150	689	14%	40%	9%
PFS	9272	1457	7815	9932	1754	8178	7%	20%	5%
Aberdeen	477	50	427	579	76	503
Banff	37	4	33	26	9	17
Elgin	110	23	87	118	36	82
Peterhead	77	23	54	91	20	71
Stonehaven	36	7	29	25	9	16

Table 3 - Precognitions to Crown Office etc October 2005 to September 2007:

	Precognition to Crown Office	Precognitions in progress	Cases investigated prior to petition instruction	Precognition to Crown Office	Precognitions in progress	Cases investigated prior to petition instruction	Precognition to Crown Office	Precognitions in progress	Cases investigated prior to petition instruction
	Oct 2005 - Sep 2006	Data taken from month 12 of the period:	Oct 2005 - Sep 2006	Oct 2006 - Sep 2007	Data taken from month 12 of the period:	Oct 2006 - Sep 2007	% change
Grampian	530	271	3	525	362	0	-1%	34%	-100%
PFS	5214	3739	35	5993	3952	47	15%	6%	34%
Aberdeen	357	168	3	390	229	0
Banff	22	15	0	16	9	0
Elgin	70	41	0	58	65	0
Peterhead	56	37	0	46	50	0
Stonehaven	25	10	0	15	9	0

Table 4 - Cases Placed on Petition October 2006 to September 2007:

	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	TOTALS
Grampian	55	74	55	83	68	68	66	77	76	87	76	54	839
PFS	963	885	817	833	822	820	748	825	846	847	780	746	9932
Aberdeen	41	44	36	63	53	49	41	46	54	61	55	36	579
Banff	2	5	2	6	0	1	3	1	0	4	2	0	26
Elgin	5	13	6	7	8	11	11	11	12	14	12	8	118
Peterhead	5	10	9	6	5	6	7	14	6	7	6	10	91
Stonehaven	2	2	2	1	2	1	4	5	4	1	1	0	25

Table 5 - Cases Reduced to Summary October 2006 to September 2007:

	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	TOTALS
Grampian	11	17	9	11	15	15	10	10	10	15	17	10	150
PFS	141	153	108	161	167	174	126	143	151	158	162	110	1754
Aberdeen	5	14	3	7	5	8	6	3	4	8	10	3	76
Banff	0	1	0	1	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	9
Elgin	4	0	5	3	4	4	2	4	2	3	1	4	36
Peterhead	2	1	1	0	4	1	0	2	4	0	4	1	20
Stonehaven	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	2	1	9

Table 6 - Precognitions: Work in Progress October 2006 to September 2007:

	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	AVERAGE
Grampian	261	277	272	276	278	282	298	308	341	365	366	362	307
PFS	3789	3849	3983	3848	3968	3886	3846	3841	3898	3906	3848	3952	3885
Aberdeen	156	165	169	178	190	191	199	195	212	234	234	229	196
Banff	15	18	18	17	15	13	13	13	12	13	13	9	14
Elgin	39	43	34	35	34	39	38	44	55	58	64	65	46
Peterhead	40	43	44	40	33	34	37	45	47	48	44	50	42
Stonehaven	11	8	7	6	6	5	11	11	15	12	11	9	9

Table 7 - Precognitions Over 7 Months Old October 2006 to September 2007:

	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	AVERAGE
Grampian	21	22	22	18	19	21	20	23	34	35	35	30	25
PFS	450	453	521	453	521	495	509	512	510	522	529	539	501
Aberdeen	7	8	8	3	9	10	10	9	14	19	22	22	12
Banff	1	0	2	1	2	3	2	2	3	2	3	1	2
Elgin	6	7	5	5	5	5	3	3	4	4	6	4	5
Peterhead	7	7	7	9	3	3	5	8	12	10	4	2	6
Stonehaven	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0

Table 8 - Death Report Information October 2005 to September 2007:

	Deaths reported to PF	Deaths reported to Crown Office	FAI's held ²⁰	Deaths reported to PF	Deaths reported to Crown Office	FAI's held	Deaths reported to PF	Deaths reported to Crown Office	FAI's held
	Oct 2005 - Sep 2006			Oct 2006 - Sep 2007			% change
Grampian	966	74	1	958	62	11	-1%	-16%	10%
PFS	13624	777	59	13541	838	42	-1%	8%	-29%
Aberdeen	722	46	7	689	28	4
Banff	34	6	0	27	2	2
Elgin	124	16	0	139	17	0
Peterhead	60	6	3	80	7	5
Stonehaven	26	0	0	23	8	0

Table 9 - Summary of Non-Court Closures October 2006 to September 2007:

	Criminal Reports Received	No Pro ²¹	No Pros as % of Reports	No Further Pros	Warning	Cond Offer ²²	Fiscal Fine	Divert	Reporter	Transfer	Associate	Total Non-Court (excl NFP)	As % of Reports
Grampian	22853	2443	11%	2109	1154	1055	793	221	194	98	926	6884	30%
PFS	322475	47185	15%	52455	28378	14891	20070	1629	3665	1059	4968	121845	38%
Aberdeen	14123	1433	10%	1284	585	635	480	136	87	30	830	4216	30%
Banff	873	77	9%	92	68	32	30	11	10	7	1	236	27%
Elgin	3337	458	14%	255	225	144	155	33	49	3	63	1130	34%
Peterhead	2596	253	10%	305	192	126	93	23	40	27	14	768	30%
Stonehaven	1924	222	12%	173	84	118	35	18	8	31	18	534	28%

Table 10 - No Proceedings Breakdown October 2006 to September 2007:

	Insufficient Admissible Evidence	Further Action Disproportionate	Civil Remedy	Mitigating Circumstances	Delay Police or Other	Delay by PF	Lack of Court Resource	Staff Shortage	Time- Barred	Not a crime	No Jurisd iction	Age of Offence	Other Specified reason	Total
Grampian	472	397	240	155	185	3	0	0	4	81	2	334	570	2443
PFS	12402	12969	2388	2203	4819	2022	0	0	364	2621	92	2933	4372	47185
Aberdeen	205	196	146	66	113	2	0	0	2	60	2	245	396	1433
Banff	9	20	9	9	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	18	77
Elgin	163	84	37	50	29	0	0	0	1	13	0	14	67	458
Peterhead	65	79	19	15	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	31	253
Stonehaven	30	18	29	15	20	1	0	0	1	7	0	43	58	222

Table 11 - No Further Proceedings Breakdown October 2006 to September 2007:

	Warrant Withdrawn	Now insuff evidence	Reporting Deficiency	Failed service	Acceptable Explanation Offered	Delay in reaching Conclusion	Crown Counsel's Instruction	Accused in Prison	Accused dead	Incapacity of accused	Witness excused	Attitude of victim	Failed alternative	Other specified reasons	Petition timebar PF error	Total
Grampian	227	95	3	182	55	14	41	39	65	10	2	98	876	402	0	2109
PFS	3988	4412	93	8154	2161	1423	524	1331	780	188	39	1807	18654	8894	7	52455
Aberdeen	167	58	2	105	35	10	29	28	34	6	1	39	604	166	0	1284
Banff	3	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	17	65	0	92
Elgin	13	18	1	47	4	3	6	2	9	3	1	22	59	67	0	255
Peterhead	25	13	0	12	10	0	4	8	17	0	0	35	114	67	0	305
Stonehaven	19	6	0	16	4	1	1	1	3	1	0	2	82	37	0	173

Table 12 - High Court Disposals October 2005 to September 2007:

	Sec 76	Plea at Prelim Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases	Sec 76	Plea at Prelim Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases	Sec 76	Plea at Prelim Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases
	Jul 2005 - Jun 2006					Jul 2006 - Jun 2007					% change
Grampian	10	18	2	6	36	12	34	11	16	73	20%	89%	450%	167%	103%
PFS	144	290	69	286	789	120	272	101	329	822	-17%	-6%	46%	15%	4%
Aberdeen	7	16	2	4	29	10	29	10	14	63
Banff	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	2	5
Elgin	3	0	0	1	4	1	2	0	2	5
Peterhead	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Stonehaven	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1

Table 13 - Sheriff and Jury Disposals October 2005 to September 2007:

	Sec 76	Plea at 1st Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases	Sec 76	Plea at 1st Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases	Sec 76	Plea at 1st Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases
	Oct 2005 - Sep 2006					Oct 2006 - Sep 2007					% change
Grampian	83	164	31	41	320	86	190	38	54	368	4%	16%	23%	29%	15%
PFS	984	1423	754	757	3918	1205	1916	764	763	4648	22%	35%	1%	1%	19%
Aberdeen	51	102	20	22	195	62	127	31	32	252
Banff	9	9	0	3	21	6	5	0	2	13
Elgin	13	24	6	7	50	8	39	0	2	13
Peterhead	7	21	4	10	42	9	14	7	12	42
Stonehaven	3	8	1	0	12	1	5	0	3	9

Table 14 - Sheriff Court Disposals October 2005 to September 2007:

	Plea at Pleading Diet	Plea at intermediate Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases	Plea at Pleading Diet	Plea at intermediate Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases	Plea at Pleading Diet	Plea at intermediate Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases
	Oct 2005 - Sep 2006					Oct 2006 - Sep 2007					% change
Grampian	3075	1830	740	246	5891	3581	2556	806	362	7305	16%	40%	9%	47%	24%
PFS	36578	21847	17362	5833	81620	37296	22225	17297	5212	82030	2%	2%	0%	-11%	1%
Aberdeen	1314	1095	350	103	2862	1916	1676	370	173	4135
Banff	197	85	52	23	357	224	116	75	32	447
Elgin	806	212	193	74	1285	790	320	226	93	1429
Peterhead	547	351	112	34	1044	425	362	106	37	930
Stonehaven	211	87	33	12	343	226	82	29	27	364

Table 15 - District Court Disposals October 2005 to September 2007:

	Plea at Pleading Diet	Plea at intermediate Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases	Plea at Pleading Diet	Plea at intermediate Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases	Plea at Pleading Diet	Plea at intermediate Diet	Plea at Trial Diet	Trials	Total Cases
	Oct 2005 - Sep 2006					Oct 2006 - Sep 2007					% change
Grampian	2593	513	174	88	3368	2974	491	265	31	3761	15%	-4%	52%	-65%	12%
PFS	30861	4181	3024	1048	39114	31404	4392	3147	1030	39973	2%	5%	4%	-2%	2%
Aberdeen	1427	349	94	57	1927	1873	364	114	0	2351
Banff	121	7	11	4	143	138	14	10	3	165
Elgin	316	33	15	10	374	285	35	40	11	371
Peterhead	483	101	49	14	647	309	64	68	15	456
Stonehaven	246	23	5	3	177	369	14	33	2	418

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