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The following table shows the total number of charges reported in the last three financial years where Procurators Fiscal commenced court proceedings for contraventions of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, Section 18(1), which relates to the sale of tobacco or cigarette papers to a person under 16.
Court Proceedings Commenced: Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, Section 18(1)1
Police Force Area
| Convicted or Not
| Charges Reported2

| | 2002-03
| 2003-04
| 2004-05

Grampian Police
| Convicted
| 1
| 1
| 0

Not Convicted
| 0
| 1
| 2

Lothian and Borders Police
| Convicted
| 0
| 2
| 1

Northern Constabulary
| Case not yet concluded
| 0
| 0
| 2

Strathclyde Police
| Convicted
| 1
| 0
| 0

Not Convicted
| 1
| 0
| 0

Tayside Police
| Not Convicted
| 0
| 0
| 1

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. The database is charge-based. The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the number of individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.
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.