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Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts, 1999

11. Appendix of Tables

Summary of known action, 1989-1999

Table 1
Thousands


 

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

Crimes and offences recorded by the police

Crimes 1

478

518

573

565

517

500

476

452

421

432

436

Offences

409

423

428

434

442

464

452

452

489

516

504

Crimes and offences cleared up by the police

Crimes 1

150

155

164

166

160

169

168

166

164

178

189

Offences

390

403

407

411

419

442

432

433

467

497

484

Crimes and offences dealt with by:

Offence referrals to Reporter to Children's Panel2

24

25

25

25

23

26

28

28

283

283

313

Offences dealt with under Vehicle Defect

Rectification Scheme

21

22

21

21

21

23

30

287

317

357

317

Police conditional offers (Motor vehicle Offences)4

-

-

-

-

90

112

110

124

124

152

168

Procurator Fiscal action

Total reports received5

375

381

390

367

318

290

281

282

289

293

282

Fiscal warnings

14

14

14

15

15

16

18

19

23

22

19

Conditional offers (Motor vehicle offences) 4,6

90

100

106

108

46

9

11

8

8

9

97

Fiscal fines6

16

17

16

18

16

15

17

14

19

19

18

Diversion

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

No proceedings

45

41

35

36

36

45

37

38

35

40

43

Persons proceeded against in court

195

199

201

199

184

179

177

175

173

159

147

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 Data collected from 1996/97 onwards is on a financial year basis. The data prior to 1996 refers to calender years.
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 Includes estimated data.

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