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As the role is new, it will be necessary to consider which public body or organisation would be best placed to take it on, and whoever does so will be set out in the regulations.
As I said earlier, 1,590 rapes were recorded across Scotland last year, and the best assessment from independent survey data is that that is 20 per cent of the crimes that have happened.
Police officers—front-line officers—are saying that.We accept that we do not live in a perfect world and we are trying to do our best. We are doing an awful lot better than our colleagues down south are doing.