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Question reference: S5W-33611

  • Asked by: Peter Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 30 November 2020

  • Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 4 December 2020

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12821 by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2017, whether it will provide the information for 2019-20 regarding the number of offences recorded by Police Scotland under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953.

Answer

Information on the number of offences recorded by Police Scotland under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 is provided in the following table.

Table 1. Offences of Protection of livestock from dogs,
by local authority, 2010-11 to 2019-20

  
 

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

Aberdeen
City

3

3

-

1

2

6

6

3

1

-

Aberdeenshire

14

12

24

9

10

15

16

21

20

14

Angus

2

1

3

1

2

6

1

2

2

-

Argyll & Bute

3

3

11

3

5

8

11

7

11

11

Clackmannanshire

-

2

1

2

-

4

2

2

-

-

Dumfries & Galloway

7

7

5

6

6

12

7

21

13

9

Dundee

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

East Ayrshire

4

2

1

2

1

8

3

9

5

6

East Dunbartonshire

2

1

1

3

-

4

-

3

1

1

East Lothian

1

2

-

3

2

-

-

1

-

-

East
Renfrewshire

4

1

-

-

-

1

1

1

-

2

Edinburgh
City

2

2

2

3

3

2

7

4

5

2

Falkirk

2

5

8

-

3

4

3

2

4

-

Fife

9

12

9

6

7

4

8

6

7

5

Glasgow
City

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

-

Highland

23

18

15

10

15

23

23

20

19

14

Inverclyde

-

-

1

-

-

1

2

1

2

1

Midlothian

3

3

6

5

5

4

10

8

7

10

Moray

5

3

2

3

5

4

5

3

4

8

Na h-Eileanan Siar

12

14

7

3

8

5

8

6

7

1

North Ayrshire

1

3

1

2

3

4

-

2

3

3

North
Lanarkshire

2

4

-

1

4

6

11

3

9

9

Orkney Islands

2

5

4

1

2

7

2

3

1

-

Perth & Kinross

2

3

2

2

3

7

14

11

6

7

Renfrewshire

2

6

2

1

-

4

4

2

2

1

Scottish Borders

3

2

4

8

10

7

7

4

8

19

Shetland Islands

4

2

2

-

-

3

-

-

1

-

South Ayrshire

2

1

-

3

-

1

1

3

2

3

South Lanarkshire

3

-

2

2

2

8

12

13

10

9

Stirling

2

10

8

8

8

7

8

4

12

7

West Dunbartonshire

2

1

1

3

1

2

1

1

1

2

West Lothian

1

5

3

7

2

7

2

4

4

7

Scotland

122

133

125

98

109

174

175

170

168

151

Source: Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2019-20

       

 

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