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“Intelligence-led policing” effective in reducing Aberdeen crime
“Knife carrying culture”: samurai swords
‘Engage’ patrols to report young gang members to parents
‘Justice for Europe’s Children’: Sixth Kilbrandon Child Care Lecture published
‘Magic mushroom’ prosecution will lead to clarification on sale law
‘Secured by design’ awards Fife developments
‘Slopping out’ decision to be appealed: early release for low risk prisoners
‘Slopping out’ repercussions: McConnell defends decision
‘Slopping out’: Executive to make appeal decision
Aberdeen Sheriff complains of custody case delays
Aberdeenshire Council critical of lay justices abolition proposal
Academic warns of untested devolution power boundaries
ACPOS to look at increased use of civilian staff in policing
Alcohol and crime: current stories
Alcohol and crime: North-East Scotland
Alcohol regulations to be better enforced in Edinburgh
All Dundee buses equipped with CCTV
Alleged Miscarriages Of Justice In Scotland; Fifth Annual Report
Amnesty releases death penalty statistics 2003: Kenny Richey campaign
Angus: expansion of criminal justice team to respond to rise in community sentences
Anti-sectarian teaching pack launched
Antisocial behaviour ‘tsar’ appointed in Edinburgh
Antisocial Behaviour Bill debate in Parliament today
Antisocial Behaviour Bill passed
Antisocial Behaviour Bill: clauses approved by Comunities Committee
Antisocial Behaviour Bill: Communities Committee approves dispersal powers
Antisocial behaviour decreasing in some parts of Scotland: McConnell
Antisocial behaviour: costs warning, nexts steps, Children’s Commissioner’s caution; housing
Army recruits at YOI Polmont
Asset recovery: largest amount so far
ATM ‘skimmers’ hit capital
Bailed prisoner returned to Cornton Vale
Beat police priority for First Minister as opens Lothians communications centre
Bids invited for West Lothian prison
Borders Council: reports on abuse of vulnerable adult published
Britain’s love affair with CCTV: preliminary results of comparative study
Burglary: new predictive model developed; Lothians burglary figures up despite specialist squad
Carstairs State Hospital: redevelopment plan; re-allocation of women
Cathy Jamieson online this Thursday: questions on reducing crime.
CCTV developments in Glasgow
CCTV for Kirkwall but not for Condorrat
CCTV in Thurso maintained by local group
CCTV upgrade costs decision for Borders council
Change of rules allow DNA investigations of prisoners
Child abuse cases: renewed scrutiny of expert evidence
Child witnesses: new guidance issued
Children as counterfeiters’ runners in Barras
Children’s Commissioner begins work with attacks on Antisocial Behaviour Bill and child imprisonment
Children’s Commissioner concerned about Edinburgh’s tagging plans
Children’s Hearing Review public meetings
Children’s Hearings and the persistent or serious child offender
Children’s hearings review: the ‘political imperative’ for change
Children’s Hearings: debate and experience
Children’s Welfare At Dungavel Questioned
Church of Scotland Committee critical of young offenders’ policy
Civil litigation way forward for train vandalism
Civil remedy feasible and successful in bus vandalism
Colonsay subject to bout of car crime
Combined police, council and criminal justice social work building in Peebles on track
Community group despairs of non-punitive approach to disorderly youngsters
Community initiative transforms problem location
Community police officer for Glasgow-Largs railway
Community wardens no substitute for police: warning
Community watch to protect schools in Aberdeenshire
Concern over medical confidentiality and the police
Conference on financial security and crime launches anti-fraud campaign
COSLA: single justice agency would jeopardise child protection services
Costs, Sentencing Profiles and the Scottish Criminal Justice System 2002 published
Courts’ ‘Future Office System’: problems impact on sittings
Crack Addicts Commit Crime To Fund Addiction
Crime risk if methadone scripts restricted
Criminal justice concessions and the EU constitution
Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill Stage 3 completed
Crown Office finds no miscarriages of justice in child abuse cases
Crown Office: staff numbers
CS canisters reported to be easily available to criminals
Cupar Sheriff Court: under threat?
D.I.Y. community anti-vandalism kits
Definition of rape in Scots law: new ruling makes successful prosecution harder
Devolved new Equality and Human Rights Commission announced
Directions Project: early intervention with at-risk children
Disability ‘hate crimes’: voluntary groups report
District Courts Association challenges basis of McInnes recommendation on lay justices
District Courts have higher rate of remand in custody than Sheriff Courts
Diversion and Arrest Referral schemes funded for North Lanarkshire
DNA swab kits useful to track train offenders
Dog-fouling law loop-hole
Domestic abuse: men as victims
Drug services get above inflation increase in 2004-5 funding
Drug Users Committing Crime To Get Help
Drugs in prison: Craiginches
Drunk tank’ scheme for Edinburgh
DUNCAN extended beyond Dundee centre
Dundee Community Safety Partnership: activities support to divert children from crime
Dundee’s DUNCAN scheme extended to parking attendants
Dundee: TV licence evasion figures
DVLA tax evasion campaign
Edinburgh Arrest Referral Service to be expanded
Edinburgh City Council support statutory framework to tolerance zones
Edinburgh Safe City Centre initiative success say police
Edinburgh’s drug ‘tsar’ named
Edinburgh’s Operation Adhere to tackle under age drinking
Employment Could Stem Increase In Drug Problems
Eviction power for public sector re-inserted in Antisocial Behaviour Bill
Ex-HMP Longriggend marketed as as film location
Executive accused of inadequate response to internet grooming
Executive running mini-consultation on EU sentencing green paper
Extra funding for restorative justice promised by Justice Minister
Extract decree granted in slopping out case
Fear of violent crime myths challenge to police - Vine.
Fife fiscal arrangements defended by Solicitor-General
Fife police publish study on drink driving
Fife Police: 2003-4 Annual Report published
Fife: police link with rural post offices to deliver services
Fife: racism reports to police up significantly
Film challenges political ideas about antisocial behaviour
Fingerprinting system criticised
Fire hoax campaign week launched
Fire investigation: single agency recommeded
Firearm law change makes more guns illegal
Fireworks control consultation
First Minister announces rape law review
First Minister’s speech to Kirk assembly: vision of justice system
Flashcam effective in dealing with railway graffiti
Forensic Medicine Archives Project to be launched this week
Fraserburgh traders see CCTV as solution to vandalism
Glasgow education pack: Citizenship and the Law
Glasgow Police Museum opens for season
Glasgow: Central Station area crime reduction strategy
Goldie confirms ‘zero tolerance’ approach to drugs
Grampian Police Annual Report 2003-4: ‘priority’ crime down
Grampian Police drink driving campaign
Grampian Police publishes 2004 priorities
Grampian Police: extra royal duties not adequately funded?
Grampian Police: Operation Belt Up launched
Grampian: special constables recruitment drive
Hate crime consultation closes: conviction recording criticised
Heroin epidemic forecast for Edinburgh
Highlands: domestic abuse campaign launched
Hit list for Edinburgh police patrols
HM Inspectorate of Prisons: Report on HM Prison Shotts published
HMIP Peterhead Inspection report 2004
HMIP: Report on HMP Edinburgh published
Illicit trading in Barras
Impact of alcohol on Scotland’s health
Impact of Land Reform Act: freedom of access
Increased risk of ‘white collar’ prosecutions for regulatory offences
Increased Support For Scots Rape Victims
Independent complaints structure for police
Interpol DNA database: cross-border matching
Justice Minister challenged to upgrade Peterhead prison
Justice Minister looks again at support for wrongly convicted prisoners
Justice Minister under pressure: gives evidence to Justice Committee on Reliance today; slopping out
Kenny Richey: hopes raised - but concern persists
Kenny Richey: House of Commons motion
Kirkintilloch ‘Pubwatch’ successful
Law Lords Provide Hope For Some Scottish Murderers
Lay members for English Strategic Management Boards: monitoring dangerous offenders in the community
Legal set back in Richey death row case
Lib Dems prepared to sacrifice coalition over antisocial behaviour strategy
Liquor Licensing: statistical review of last 4 years published; new legislation trailed
Literacy Initiative in Perth Prison
Local focus on drink related crime
Lord Advocate Reforms the Procurator Fiscal Service
Lothian and Borders Police: Operation Capital criticised
Lothian Police Witness Standby scheme effective
McConnell promises extra resources to police Edinburgh
Minister explains need for review of children’s hearing system
Mobile phone fixed penalties: first six months
Motor vehicle pollution: instant fixed penalties
Motorists’ indignation at enforcement ignores safety camera research
MSP concerned about court case abandonments
MSP raises unserved warrants issue
MSP tackles Justice Minister over Grampian police funding
Multi-agency task force to tackle Strathclyde violent crime
National ‘restorative police warnings’ plan for children in trouble
National Rail Crime week 2004
National Railway Crime week 2004
Nature Conservation (Scotland) Bill for Stage 3 debate today
NCH: tackling antisocial behaviour positively in Dundee
Net crime hunt in west of Scotland
New COPFS computer system teething troubles
New firearms laws to be proposed
New Orkney and Shetland sheriff comments on sentencing approach
New police diversity strategy launched
New preventative NCH project
New prison approved in West Lothian
NHS conference on violence and aggression
NHS Scotland to deny emergency treatment to aggressive patients
No Speeding Day results
North Ayrshire opposes abolition of lay JPs
Northern Constabulary campaign to protect rare eggs
Numbers shortfall in ID pilot tests
Offender returned to Barlinnie in error
Operation Dry-up: under age drinking campaign to be repeated in Angus
Operation Dump the Dealer launched in East Lothian
Parenting project to help families avoid crime
Parliament alert
Parliament alert: social work
Parliament debate: reducing reoffending and improving the effectiveness of custodial and non-custodi
Parliament urged to introduce specific offence of internet grooming
Parole of sick and elderly ex-prisoners: suitable accommodation
Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime conference
Payment for special constables: Grampian and Tayside scheme underway
Pearson discusses challenges and new role of SDEA
Petitons Committee look again at Peterhead prison petition: no progress
Police advise Stromness householders to lock up
Police call for protective sentencing: assaults on police in Glasgow
Police college runs first course for domestic abuse specialists
Police reject claim that are failing to cope with cyber-crime
Police restorative warnings guidelines published
Police signal increase in violent crimes committed by women
Police superintendents’ conference: sectarian marches
Policing the G8 summit
Porridge extra at HMP Dumfries
Positive evaluation of youth court pilot anticipated
Prison escort privatisation V: regulation of private security
Prison Gossip to be Passed On
Prison staff hold “Prison! Me! No-way!” event for Dumfries S3 students
Prisoner wrongly released from Glasgow District Court
Prisoner’s absconding conviction quashed
Private prosecution of assaults on nurses planned
Private security firms: Justice Minister supports regulation
Private security firms: underworld connection issue
Private security regulation: English firms moving north
Procurator-Fiscal Society to argue for more resources in Crown Office
Profile of Scotland’s Justice Minister
Prosecution adjourments in Glasgow courts
Prostitution Tolerance Zones Bill debate postponed until after Working Group reports
Prostitution tolerance: MacDonald to appear before LG and T. Committee today
Pubwatch launched in Lochaber
Race abuse at HMP Peterhead to be investigated
Racial incidents in Glasgow schools in 2003 logged
Racism and Scottish football
Rangers FC bans supporter after bigotry conviction
Rape convictions in Grampian at an all time low
Rape laws: 2002 legislation tested again
Re-organisation of Borders fiscal service
Reform of alcohol legislation
Religious bigotry charges rise
Removal of under-16 ASBO extension defeated in Committee
Research highlights domestic abuse of over-50s
Research on prisoners’ families now accessible
Restorative justice an effective alternative to ‘get tough’ talk on crime
Review of Children’s Hearings
Review of police complaints procedures announced
Richey conviction to be assessed
Richey: execution or liberty
Rural policing initiative: Tweeddale
Russian prison staff in Scotland to look at prison drug/AIDS initiatives
Satellite police station in PO: successful first year.
Scots law results in unequal consequences on conviction in high security setting
Scotsman writers consider Jamieson’s future
Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice publishes paper on Re-Offending consultation
Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey starts today
Scottish crime database could have helped avoid Soham tragedy
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency: Criminal Masterminds to be Targetted
Scottish Executive to decide on publication of Munchausen report
Scottish Human Rights Commission: analysis of second consultation responses published
Scottish Parliament Committees’ Annual Reports published
Scottish police forces to address ‘Gender Agenda’
Scottish police to connect to European law enforcement database
Scottish Prisons Complaints Commission 2003 report critical of SPS
SCRA concerns about potential conflict of interest in Chidren’s Hearing review proposals
Sectarian parades: call for control backed by First Minister
Sectarian violence myths challenged
Sentencing reponse to NHS assaults: severity urged
Sex offenders: transfers to Dumfries; objections to Peterhead area settlement
Sexual Grooming of Children (Scotland) Bill: will proceed
Sheriff uses extended power to imprison for first time
Shetland: youngsters’ drinking causing disorder
Shoplifting: Securicor survey.
Sick leave rates down in Tayside police
Single offenders agency policy not deflected by consultation opposition
Slopping out appeal: more time granted
Slopping out: cost to the Executive questioned
Slopping out: Napier wins case
Slopping out: staff considering court action; more prisoners claim compensation
Solicitor general promotes more open prosecution system (Glasgow SASD conference)
Solicitor General supports range of sentencing options
Speed cameras haul
Speed cameras: impact on road casualties in Lothians
SPF rejects possibility of statutory hate crime offence
SPS accused of not informing public of absent prisoners
SPS and SPOA to bid for new prison contract
SPS launches new approach to tackling the problems of short term prisoners
Stirling: Under age alcohol blitz cuts police calls
Stonehaven custody cases tranferred to Aberdeen
Strathclyde Police computer teething troubles: continuing problems
Strathclyde Police launches repeat victimisation database
Strathclyde Police publish pioneering report on racism; national police race compliance published
Strathclyde’s Crime Statistics Published; Overall Fall But Violent Crime Concern
Street crime: community protests
Success for Orkney Youth Crime Action Plan
Summer drink driving campaign: ‘Let’s Have a Safe Summer’
Supreme Court postponed
Swimming passes cut vandalism in Buchan
Tagging children: pilot scheme mooted in Edinburgh
Tags protect domestic abuse victims
Tayside launches anti-terrorism/crime prevention initiative
Tayside police annual report notes drop in reported crime but rise in drug abuse
Tayside: A Safe Place To Live
Teacher’s union calls for parental fines for unruly behaviour
Teaching union highlights assaults in schools
Tougher penalties call for rail vandalism
Transformation for volunteer ex-addict
UK organised crime strategy: evidential implications
UK to think again about EU public prosecutor
Unconvicted child sex suspects to be subject to restrictions
Union call for better protection for bus drivers
Unison campaign for better protection for health staff
Victim Information and Advice Gives a Helping Hand
Victim Information and Advice in Cupar
Violence and child protection work
Violence in Edinburgh: students warned
Violence in Glasgow: current figures from Strathclyde Police
Virtual identity parades
Warnings on cash machine fraud
Week-end of violence in Glasgow/Strathclyde
White lighting role in combatting fear of crime
Youth Justice review to be launched on Thursday: proposals for modernising children’s hearings in Ju
Youth justice team and police in joint operation to deal with youth disorder: New Elgin
Youths Get Say In Children’s Hearing System
[i]Cop College - The Graduates[/i]: police documentary on Grampian TV
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