Dear Strathclyde Police,

I am a student of Design and Digital Arts in Edinburgh Napier University and I am working on the research for my dissertation. I am interested in how design can affect people's behavior and during my research I came across a few articles referring to the blue street lights in Glasgow (I believe Buchanan Street and other areas). Source: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/20...

The articles say that since the blue lights were installed, the number of crime decreased noticeably in those areas. However, the articles were published a few years ago and I can not find any recent sources mentioning how the situation is.

Therefore, I would like to ask you for some information. Do you know how the situation is now? Do you have any statistics that I could use which show the situation in the areas before and after installing the blue lighting and the recent situation? Did the number of crimes/suicides drop since the lights were installed? Do people behave calmer in the blue lit areas?

The information will not be published or used in any other way without your permission and will only be used for the purpose of the project research.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

Yours faithfully,

Ivana Dankova

Dear Inspector Cuthbertson,

thank you very much for your reply.

I found out that the lights on Buchanan Street were installed in 1999 and think it would be great to have crime statistics/comparisons from five years before the installation all the way until now (the statistics from 1994 to 2010) if this is possible. If the comparison could be divided into different crime categories (small vandalism, drugs, robberies, more serious incidents or anything relevant), this would also be really helpful.

I am interested mainly in Buchanan Street because of the blue lighting. However, if there are any other streets that you know of with blue lighting in Glasgow, it could be helpful to get the same statistics from those too. I would also like some statistics throughout the same years from the closest streets surrounding Buchanan Street - to see if the situation has developed in the same way both in the areas with the blue lighting and also areas with common lighting, or if the street with blue lighting has a noticeably different development. It is hard for me to say the exact streets, since I am not from Glasgow and not staying there, but let's say it could be any streets with common orange lighting surrounding Buchanan street.

What is the trend for Glasgow in general since 1994 until now? Is the number of crimes increasing/decreasing?

Thank you very much, any information that are relevant would be really helpful, so if you also forward it to the Community Safety Department to see if they also have anything else, I can only thank you and really appreciate it.

I am not sure how to contact you via the email address since it only appears as a code. However, thank you very much and I hope to hear from you as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Ivana Dankova

Dear Strathclyde Police,

I know this is really hard to ask for and expect to happen but if it is possible, could the statistics be ready until 9th? The thing is, I have my presentation on 10th December and it is really important. However, if it can not I can completely understand. Also, I would like the results to be as deep/thorough as possible, so I don't want to cut anything off just because of the deadline. I can still use the research for my dissertation and your help is really very much appreciated. Just in case any part is possible to get before 10th, let me know please.

Thank you very very much and have a nice day!

Yours faithfully,

Ivana Dankova

Dear Strathclyde Police,

I was notified that my request has been delayed and that, by law, the authority should normally have responded promptly and by 13th December.

Please, let me know how it's going and when I could receive the statistics. It would be very helpful for my research and would be great if I could receive them as soon as possible. It would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much and have a nice day! I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Ivana Dankova

Dear Strathclyde Police,

thank you very much for the documents. Your help is very much appreciated. However, I was trying to find tables 1 and 4 as mentioned in the 1st document, but it seems that there is only table 2 and 3 included. Could you, please, send me the remaining two?

Also, I can only see statistics until 2004 in the documents but asked for statistics until 2010 if possible. I'm not sure if these were just not attached or why it is. Could you, please, double-check if all the attachments that were supposed to be sent were sent correctly or if there are any missing, or let me know what happened?

Thank you very much again and I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Ivana Dankova

Dear INFO,

thank you very much for providing the statistics to me. I've been working on analyzing them and the year 2004 seems to be critical - the crime went up a lot that year. Is there any specific reason for this that you know of? Maybe there was some event or something happened that caused this? It would be useful to know for the analysis. If you know of any reason that could cause this, please, let me know.

Thank you very much and all the best to the new year.

Yours sincerely,

Ivana Dankova

Dear INFO,

thank you for your reply. I am referring to the recorded crimes for both, Buchanan Street and also the surrounding areas. Not all types of crime went up but a lot of them did quite a lot in 2004, according to the numbers and graphs, which made me think it might be due to some specific reason or event or something that happened in that year. Thank you very much and have a nice day

Yours sincerely,

Ivana Dankova