Whether the Lord Advocate will commission an independent enquiry into the competency and efficiency of the Scottish Criminal Record Office …

Answered Asked by Alex Neil SNP Lodged 17 Oct 2003

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Lord Advocate will commission an independent enquiry into the competency and efficiency of the Scottish Criminal Record Office including the safety of the fingerprint evidence it submits to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service for use in court cases.

The answer

Answered by Colin Boyd on 14 Nov 2003 · 28 days after it was lodged, on time

I do not intend tocommission an enquiry into fingerprint evidence from the Scottish CriminalRecord Office/Scottish Fingerprint Service. I am satisfied that the ScottishCriminal Record Office/Scottish Fingerprint Service has adopted an appropriateQuality Assurance Management System. I refer the member to the answer given toquestion S2W-3508. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-03509 by reference.