Scottish Government

Footnotes

1. The term 'bail officer' is used throughout this report to denote the writer of the suitability report, who is not a qualified social worker. In Glasgow, they are officially known as 'bail officers', in Kilmarnock as 'bail workers' and in Stirling as 'criminal justice officers (bail)'.
2. All of whom were either sole or joint householders and responsible for giving permission for the bailee to reside there.
3. It was decided to focus on all closed cases of individuals who had completed a period of EM bail as at 31 ^st July 2006, which resulted in 63 closed cases in total. This allowed a full rather than partial history of individual cases, any breach proceedings brought and final outcomes.
4. Special conditions of standard bail include not approaching a witness or victim; 'signing in' at a police station on a regular basis; and being curfewed to a specific bail address for stipulated periods of the day or night.
5. Based on Scottish Executive (2006), Prison Statistics Scotland 2005/06, Edinburgh: The Stationery Office and on Scottish Prison Service database records.
6. Although there was a record of one further case in Kilmarnock where breach proceedings were brought, the full case history was not available.
7. This figure is calculated from the Scottish Prison Service Annual Report and Accounts 2003-04 and was externally verified for the financial year 2003-04. It is based on the annual cost for prisons divided by the number of prisoners. The annual cost includes staffing costs, running costs and other current expenditure associated with the operation of the prison estate.