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Written Question · S2W-19410 · Session 2

How many offences of (a) perjury, (b) resisting arrest and (c) wasting police time and how many bail offences other than absconding and re-…

Answered Asked by Stewart Stevenson SNP Lodged 21 Sep 2005

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many offences of (a) perjury, (b) resisting arrest and (c) wasting police time and how many bail offences other than absconding and re-offending have been committed in each year since 1999, broken down by police force area.

The answer

Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 Sep 2005 · 8 days after it was lodged, on time

The available information is given in the following tables.
Selected Crimes Recorded by the Police in Scotland, by Police Force Area, 1999

| Central
| Dumfries and Galloway
| Fife
| Grampian
| Lothian and Borders
| Northern
| Strathclyde
| Tayside
| Scotland

Public mischief (inc wasting police time)
| 61
| 29
| 73
| 71
| 137
| 47
| 1,883
| 276
| 2,577

Resisting arrest
| 269
| 144
| 309
| 433
| 914
| 244
| 3,113
| 338
| 5,764

Bail offences other than absconding/ re-offending
| 222
| 18
| 99
| 83
| 363
| 27
| 739
| 270
| 1,821

Perjury and subordination
| 3
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 4
| 2
| 20
| 0
| 31


Selected Crimes Recorded by the Police in Scotland, by Police Force Area, 2000

| Central
| Dumfries and Galloway
| Fife
| Grampian
| Lothian and Borders
| Northern
| Strathclyde
| Tayside
| Scotland

Public mischief (inc wasting police time)
| 61
| 28
| 78
| 63
| 162
| 42
| 319
| 243
| 996

Resisting arrest
| 277
| 116
| 333
| 393
| 963
| 239
| 3,169
| 320
| 5,810

Bail offences other than absconding/ re-offending
| 267
| 20
| 168
| 12
| 431

In the Official Report

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