In how many cases where arrest warrants have been issued by Glasgow District Court and Glasgow Sheriff Court no proceedings were taken by t…

The following table provides details of the number of accused where court proceedings were initiated and a warrant was issued by Glasgow Sheriff Court or Glasgow District Court but the warrant was subsequently withdrawn by the Procurator Fiscal and the case against the accused closed. The table relates to accused recorded in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service”s Case Management Database as having a last marking of “No Further Proceedings – Warrant Withdrawn”. It is possible that there were some accused whose cases were marked as “No Further Proceedings” for other reasons (eg “Accused Dead”, “Accused in Prison” or “Acceptable Explanation Offered”) where a warrant had been issued at some stage during the proceedings, but such cases are not readily identifiable from the information held on the Database.
Accused Marked “No Further Proceedings – Warrant Withdrawn”: Glasgow1
Year2
| Number of Accused
| Total Number of Court Appearances During Year Resulting in Grant of Warrant

2002-03
| 1,825
| 25,487

2003-04
| 2,813
| 20,130

2004-05
| 1,160
| 16,808

Notes:
1. The information in this table has been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s Case Management Database. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processing of reports submitted to Procurators Fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies.
2. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service completed an upgrade of its electronic case management system in April 2002. Only case records created after that date contain complete data which is capable of electronic analysis.