Table A8 Percentage of persons found guilty, cautioned, given a fiscal fine or dealt with by compounding for drug offences by police forces or other authorities
	and sentence or order given,(1) 2003, Scotland
Police force or other authority		Total	Cautioned	Fiscal	Found Guilty
		(=100%)		fine	Absolute	Community	Community	Fine	Imprisonment		Otherwise
					or conditional	Rehabilitation	Punishment		Immediate	Fully	dealt
					discharge	Order	Order		custody(2)	suspended	with
Scotland(4)
	Central	100	0	34	5	5	1	47	5	0	2
	Dumfries and Galloway	100	0	29	0	5	5	40	10	0	10
	Fife	100	40	14	0	6	5	21	10	0	4
	Grampian	100	3	4	0	8	4	59	10	0	12
	Lothian and Borders	100	0	25	0	5	4	50	6	0	10
	Northern	100	0	39	0	1	3	48	6	0	3
	Strathclyde	100	1	1	0	6	2	69	7	0	14
	Tayside	100	1	21	0	3	4	57	4	0	9
	Other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Scottish customs	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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	Percentage	100	2	13	0	5	3	59	7	0	11
(1) Where a person is found guilty of two or more drugs offences at the same court appearance the sentence or order shown in this table is the most severe penalty.
(2) Unsuspended imprisonment, and youth sentences.
(3) Cautions for young offenders have been replaced by reprimands and final warnings from 1 June 2000.  These have not been included in this table.