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HER MAJESTY'S CHIEF INSPECTOR OF CONSTABULARY FOR SCOTLAND REPORT FOR 1998/99

 

Table 13 Drug Offences Recorded by the Police, Scotland 1992-94, 1995/6, 1996/7 & 1997/8(1)

Breakdown of Recorded Drug Offences

 

1992

1993

1994

F
I
N
A
N
C
I
A
L 

Y
E
A
R

1995/96

1996/97

1997/98

1998/99

Illegal importation

5

4

13

17

39

24

32

Production

177

286

280

308

287

220

184

Supply, possession with intent to supply

3,914

4,943

5,625

7,865

7,057

7,823

8,690

Possession

9,226

12,430

13,146

17,247

18,088

21,096

23,375

Other

246

323

217

302

283

272

402

Total

13,568

17,986

19,281

25,739

25,754

29,435

32,683

 

 

 

1992

1993

1994

F
I
N
A
N
C
I
A
L 

Y
E
A
R

1995/96

1996/97

1997/98

1998/99

Central

553

738

860

1,099

1,054

1,128

1,346

Dumfries & Galloway

317

375

413

764

758

910

873

Fife

730

715

1,112

1,742

1,848

1,817

2.095

Grampian

1,091

1,127

1,847

2,558

2,465

2,959

2,880

Lothian & Borders

2,425

4,158

2,870

3,447

3,358

3,828

4,046

Northern

641

755

944

1,345

1,302

1,511

1,229

Strathclyde

6,532

8,764

9,842

13,404

13,335

15,217

18,083

Tayside

1,279

1,354

1,393

1,380

1,634

2,065

2,131

Total

13,568

17,986

19,281

25,739

25,754

29,435

32,683

1. Figures may differ to those already published in the individual Chief Constables' Annual Reports as a result of timing differences in the submission of data to The Scottish Office and the production of the Chief Constables' Annual Reports.

 

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