Question reference: S4W-02183
- Asked by: Ruth Davidson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 12 August 2011
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Current status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 August 2011
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what disposals were applied to people convicted of carrying a knife or other bladed weapon in the Strathclyde Police force area in 2010-11.
Answer
Information for 2010-11 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2010-11 Statistical Bulletin. This is due to be published in December 2011.
The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.
The published information for 2009-10 for handling an offensive weapon can be found in table 8a of the additional datasets titled Bulletin table 4a, 8a and 10a by Police Force Area 2009-10 at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/DatasetsCrimProc.
Crimes of “handling an offensive weapon” include possession of an offensive weapon, having in a public place an article with a blade or point and restriction of an offensive weapon. An offensive weapon include knives and other sharp instruments.