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“Convictions for serious assault and attempted murder double ” Evening News
Posted by MM on Fri 30th Dec 2005 at 9:19 amUpdate
“SNP urges unified drugs strategy ” BBC
“Call for drug service information” BBC 2.01.06
Following posted on 4.12.05
“Anti-drugs organisation to close” Holyrood.com
“Scots anti-drugs agency scrapped after nine years” Evening Times
“Drug agency chief hits out as Executive axes funds ” Scotsman
“Simpson speaks out as drugs agency closed” Law Society Journal
Following posted on 2.12 05
“Scotland Against Drugs shut down over funding” Herald
“Makeover for drugs advisory group” Scotsman
“Scotland Against Drugs to be wound up” Scottish TV
See also
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to continue providing financial support to Scotland Against Drugs in 2006-07.
Scotland Against Drugs
Healthy Working Lives
“Lapdance clubs face much stricter licensing ” Herald
“Strip bars face ‘private dance’ ban in licensing clampdown” Evening News
“Support for control of sex industry ” Evening Telegraph
See also
Scottish Executive Adult Entertainment Working Group
Also
CjScotland 25.2.05: Working group on control of adult entertainment set up
“Scourge of apprentice neds: cameras show chaos caused by child yobs” Daily Record 30.12.05
Posted by MM on Fri 30th Dec 2005 at 8:21 amScottish Crime and Victimisation Survey: Calibration Exercise: A Comparison of Survey Methodologies
This report addresses methodological issues relating to the Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey. This Survey adopted recommendations made by the McCaig review (2003) to move from face-to-face interviewing used by previous Scottish Crime Surveys to telephone interviewing.
The report concludes that there are clear problems with the telephone survey approach including “a more fundamental and irresolvable bias resulting from what appears to be a tendency for non-victims to be more likely to refuse to participate” and the exclusion of mobile phone users from the sample.
The SCVS was launched in June 2004 and had been intended to run continuously until March 2007. However, the Scottish Executive announced the abandonment of the programme in October 2005.
See also
CjScotland 7.10.05: Scottish Crime Survey abandons telephone research programme
“Speeding cop quits the force” Evening Times
“Concern at speeding police” Courier
“Police accused of acting as though speed limits don’t apply to them” Scotsman
“303 cops caught for speeding” Evening Express
“Boy racer cops caught on film” Evening News
“Housing ‘no’ vote threatens to hit youth-crime fight” Evening News
Posted by MM on Wed 28th Dec 2005 at 8:30 am“Police set to take DNA samples from all new recruits” Evening Times
Posted by MM on Wed 28th Dec 2005 at 8:25 am“Rail chiefs pick up extra £1.5m in fare fraud blitz” Evening Times
“Targeting fare dodgers saves £8,000 a day” Scotsman
“Beltrami judges his 50 trying years” Herald 27.12.05
Posted by MM on Wed 28th Dec 2005 at 8:18 am