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Dear Ms Black,

I am dealing with your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act. I wanted to clarify a couple of points with you before actioning your request.

To note, alleged criminal offences are reported to the Procurator Fiscal, who then makes a decision on whether to take court proceeding/prosecute, take some other action other than prosecution in court, or take no action (which can be for a number of different reasons, e.g. insufficient evidence.

Can you firstly clarify the time frame over which you are seeking these statistics e.g. the last year or the last five years/ten years?

Additionally, where court proceedings have been taken, can I clarify that by "successful prosecution" you mean a guilty plea or a finding of guilt? Would you also wish to find out the number of cases in which court proceedings were taken up, but resulted in a finding of not guilty or not proven?

In terms of the second part of your question criminal proceedings effectively means the same thing as a prosecution. Am I correct to interpret your request in this respect to be for the number of reports where no court proceedings/prosecution have been taken? This would include cases in which other action was taken such as a fine or a diversion from prosecution and cases where no action was taken, for a variety of reasons.

Please let me know if my questions are not clear. I will put your request on hold until we received this clarification.

Yours sincerely

Helen Knipe
Response and Information Unit
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
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Dear Ms Black,
 
Thank you for your email of 2 November 2014. Please find attached
correspondence in relation to your request.
 
 
Yours sincerely
 
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Dear Ms Black,
 
Further to my letter of 2 December 2014, I am now in a position to respond
fully to your request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act
2002. I attach the response and associated annexes below.
 
Annex A:
 
 
Annex B:
 
Yours sincerely
 
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