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“Crime pays for drug users desperate for access to treatment: Chronic drug users are committing crimes to get themselves arrested and imprisoned simply to get access to treatment in some parts of Britain, according to research published today . . .“ The Guardian
Posted by MM on Mon 28th Jun 2004 at 7:48 pm“We’ll grab £21m from Scots drug barons: Scotland’s biggest criminal masterminds are to be targeted in an attempt to strip them of £21million of cash and belongings . . .“ The Evening Times
“New pledge from Drug Enforcement Agency” Grampian Television
“£32m of drugs seized by Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency” Scottish Television
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Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency
“Tayside crime rate down””Chief Constable John Vine today insisted that Tayside “is amongst the safest places to live in the UK” as he delivered his annual report...“The Evening Telegraph
“Crime is down on Tayside” Grampian Television
“Police want prison gossip on database” “POLICE want prison officers to pass on criminals’ jail gossip in a bid to prevent crime and clear up old cases...” The Scotsman
Posted by MM on Mon 28th Jun 2004 at 7:16 pm“Cash to keep kids out of trouble” “Dundee Community Safety Partnership and its Angus and Perth and Kinross counterparts are to receive additional funding to help prevent vandalism and anti-social behaviour by young rowdies during the school holidays. . .” Evening Telegraph
Posted by MM on Fri 25th Jun 2004 at 2:52 pm“Grampian Police claim crime success ” “[. . .] The force’s annual report shows instances of priority crime such as serious assault and assault and robbery have fallen by two per cent and twenty-one per cent over the past five years . . .”
Grampian TV
See also
Grampian Police. Link to report not avilable at time of posting.
Posted by MM on Fri 25th Jun 2004 at 2:48 pm“Councillors’ support bodes well for permanent CCTV in Kirkwall” Orcadian
“CCTV and teenage curfew ruled out” “CCTV cameras will NOT be installed in Condorrat to help combat anti-social behaviour - after bosses at North Lanarkshire Council stated that the plans were “not financially viable” at present . . .“Cumbernauld Today
To ask the Scottish Executive what the results were of the research that it commissioned from an independent contractor into the current incidence of physical punishment of children by their parents, as announced on 18 March 2002.
Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP)
Posted by MM on Fri 25th Jun 2004 at 7:41 amTo ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Executive has confidence in the senior management of the Scottish Prison Service.
Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP)
In relation to that prisoner escort contract, the First Minister will be aware that the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service recently confirmed to the Justice 2 Committee that the contract between Scottish ministers and Reliance was not signed off by Scottish ministers, who we now know knew nothing whatever about what was going on. The contract was signed off not even by the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service, but by an anonymous and unknown director of finance within the Scottish Prison Service. Presumably, if she had been around, the Scottish Prison Service tea lady might have signed the contract. Is the First Minister satisfied that that is an acceptable and responsible discharge of Scottish ministerial responsibility?
Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con)
Mr Tony Cameron, the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service, describes the SPS as “an arm’s length agency of the Scottish Executive”. Who is responsible—Tony Cameron or the First Minister—for the record numbers of prisoners in our overcrowded jails, for the fiasco that is the privatised prisoner escort service and, above all, for the wretched record on slopping out that has blackened Scotland’s international name and record on human rights and which means that we might have to endure another decade of this procedure in our jails? Is it not the case that the First Minister’s policy failures are at the root of the Scottish Prison Service’s problems?
Colin Fox (Lothians) (SSP)
Is the First Minister aware that certain parliamentary committees have not had a happy experience in dealing with the Scottish Prison Service?
Mr Keith Raffan (Mid Scotland and Fife) (LD)
As a member of the Justice 2 Committee, I, too, have had an interesting experience with the Scottish Prison Service. In the light of that, does the First Minister agree that the framework document covering the relationship between the Scottish Prison Service and the Executive needs to be the subject of a fundamental review, which must go beyond contractual arrangements and consider wider governance issues?
Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab)
Posted by MM on Fri 25th Jun 2004 at 7:26 amThere will be an Executive debate on ‘21st century social work’ in Plenary session from 9.30am on Thursday 1st July.
Posted by MM on Fri 25th Jun 2004 at 7:24 am