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Statistics on drugs offences recorded by the police are available from quarterly statistical returns made by the Scottish police forces to the Scottish Executive Justice Department.
Scottish police forces recorded a total of 22,588 offences of possession of drugs during 1998, a rate per 1000,00 population in Scotland of 441. This compares with a rate per 100,000 population of 409 in 1997 and 326 in 1996, Figure 4.3.
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| Figure 4.3 : Recorded offences of possession of drugs - rate per 100,000 population in Scotland |
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There were a total of 22,588 offences of possession of drugs recorded by Scottish police forces in 1998, compared with 16,739 in 1996. This represents an increase of 5,849 or 34.9% over the two years.
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| Table 4.2 : Number of recorded offences of possession of drugs and rate per 100,000 population in Scotland1 (under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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