What targets it has set for reductions in the levels of violent crime.

Answered Asked by Duncan McNeil Lab Lodged 12 Aug 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has set for reductions in the levels of violent crime.

The answer

Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 Sep 2002 · 28 days after it was lodged, on time

Scottish police forces were set a jointly agreed national target in March 2002 to reduce by 2003-04 the number of recorded incidents of violent crime by five per cent. A related target of an increase of 4.1 percentage points in the detection rate for serious violent crime was also agreed and announced at the same time.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-28329 by reference.