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Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts, 1998

12. Appendix of Tables

Summary of known action, 1988-1998

Table 1

Thousands

 

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

Crimes and offences recorded by the police

 

Crimes 1

458

478

518

573

565

517

500

476

452

421

432

Offences

386

409

423

428

434

442

464

452

452

489

516

 

Crimes and offences cleared up by the police

 

Crimes 1

148

150

155

164

166

160

169

168

166

164

178

Offences

369

390

403

407

411

419

442

432

433

467

497

 

Crimes and offences dealt with by:

 

 

Offence referrals to Reporter to Children's Panel2

26

24

25

25

25

23

26

28

283

n/a

n/a

 

Offences dealt with under Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme

19

21

22

21

21

21

23

35

288

318

n/a

 

Police conditional offers (Motor vehicle Offences)4

-

-

-

-

-

90

112

110

124

124

152

Procurator Fiscal action

Total reports received5

351

375

381

390

367

318

290

281

282

289

293

Fiscal warnings

16

14

14

14

15

15

16

18

19

23

22

Conditional offers (Motor vehicle offences)4,6

75

90

100

106

108

46

9

11

8

8

9

Fiscal fines6

9

16

17

16

18

16

15

17

14

19

19

Diversion

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

No proceedings

52

45

41

35

36

36

45

37

38

35

40

No further proceedings7

n/a

n/a

12

12

15

19

20

17

18

22

25

Persons proceeded against in court

199

195

199

201

199

184

179

177

175

173

159

1 Excludes offending while on bail. See Annex, note 12.

2 Includes referrals from the procurator fiscal; a referral may relate to more than one offence.

3 Provisional figure for the 1996/97 financial year.

4 Police conditional offers for motor vehicle offences introduced on 1 April 1993.

5 Includes reports on deaths etc.

6 From 1 April 1996, these figures relate to offers accepted rather than offers made.

7 In those cases where the fiscal decides to stop court proceedings, no further proceedings will be an outcome for cases where person is also counted as been proceeded against in court.

8 Includes estimated data for Strathclyde Police on the number of offenders.

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