How many (a) illegal importation of drugs offences, (b) illegal cultivation of drugs offences, (c) offences of possession of drugs with int…

For information from 1999 to 2001 on the numbers of crimes of illegal importation of drugs, illegal cultivation of drugs and possession of drugs with intent to supply, I refer the member to the question S1W-30310 answered on 18 October 2002. For the equivalent information for 2002, I refer the member to the question S2W-114 answered on 6 June 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search The information for 2003 is given in the following table.
The requested information on crimes of possession of drugs, drug money laundering and related crimes and other drugs crimes is given in the following tables.
Crimes of Illegal Importation or Cultivation of Drugs, Supply of or Possession of Drugs with Intent to Supply, Recorded by the Police by Council Area, 2003
Council area
| Illegal Importation of Drugs
| Production, Manufacture or Cultivation of Drugs
| Supply of, Possession with Intent to Supply Drug

Scotland
| 3
| 234
| 8,807

Aberdeen City
| 0
| 8
| 412

Aberdeenshire
| 0
| 8
| 128

Angus
| 0
| 6
| 114

Argyll and Bute
| 0
| 4
| 87

Clackmannanshire
| 0
| 1
| 131

Dumfries and Galloway
| 0
| 5
| 404

Dundee City
| 0
| 7
| 223

East Ayrshire
| 0
| 8
| 233

East Dunbartonshire
| 0
| 2
| 122

East Lothian
| 0
| 3
| 121

East Renfrewshire
| 0
| 0
| 26

Edinburgh, City of
| 1
| 14
| 850

Eilean Siar
| 0
| 1
| 20

Falkirk
| 2
| 4
| 183

Fife
| 0
| 32
| 501

Glasgow City
| 0
| 24
| 1,933

Highland
| 0
| 12
| 271

Inverclyde
| 0
| 1
| 222

Midlothian
| 0
| 10
| 110

Moray
| 0
| 5
| 68

North Ayrshire
| 0
| 6
| 191

North Lanarkshire
| 0
| 15
| 448