Question reference: S4W-30357
- Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 4 March 2016
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Current status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 18 March 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers housebreaking to be a victimless crime.
Answer
The Scottish Government recognises the serious impact housebreaking has on its victims.
The Scottish Government is committed to protecting and supporting frontline services and local community policing across the whole of Scotland - supported by this Government's continued commitment to 1,000 additional officers and our ambitious Building Safer Communities Programme which seeks to reduce the number of victims of crime in Scotland by 250,000 by 2017-18.
We are working closely with Police Scotland, councils and other national partners to make Scotland safer and stronger, the evidence of which can be seen in a continued reduction in recorded crime, down by more than a quarter since 2007.