Current status: Answered by Angela Constance on 22 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Lord Advocate on 22 September 2021 regarding diversion from prosecution, how many recorded police warnings were issued for possession of drugs for the three years (a) before and (b) after the statement, broken down by (i) type and (ii) class of drug involved, and what the impact has been on police time spent on dealing with people experiencing harmful substance use.
A table containing the number of recorded police warnings for drugs possession by month, year and drug type has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 65596)