Table S13 Persons⁽¹⁾ found guilty, cautioned, given a fiscal fine or dealt with by compounding for drug offences by type of offence and sentence or order given, 2003, Scotland

												Number of persons

			Found guilty
										Imprisonment
Type of offence		Total⁽³⁾	Cautioned	Fiscal	Total	Absolute or	Community	Probation	Fine	Immediate	Fully	Other
				Fine		conditional	Service	Order		Custody⁽²⁾	suspended
						discharge	Order


Offences under Drugs Acts:
	Unlawful production	51	-	-	51	-	2	7	27	8	-	7
	Unlawful supply	577	-	7	570	-	67	92	103	282	-	26
	Possession with intent to supply unlawfully	217	-	8	209	-	33	40	45	79	-	12
	Unlawful possession	4,977	117	642	4,218	24	234	101	3,146	158	-	555
	Permitting premises to be used for unlawful purposes	3	-	-	3	-	-	1	1	-	-	1
	Other Drugs Act offences	223	-	5	218	1	19	8	120	41	-	29

Unlawful import or export		1	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-

Other offences		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	All Drugs Act offences	5,788	117	647	4,239	20	261	151	2,933	345	-	529


(1) A person found guilty of more than one different type of offence is counted against each type of offence under the most severe sentence or order but only (again under the most severe sentence)
	in the total for all Drugs Act offences and all offences.
(2) Unsuspended imprisonment and youth sentences.
(3) The vertical dimension of this table is on the same basis as Summary table 5 and the horizontal dimension on the same basis of Summary table 9, both of which are counted differently.