No action

There will always be a percentage of cases reported to Procurators Fiscal which result in no action being taken. Procurators Fiscal may decide not to take proceedings for a number of reasons, including lack of admissable evidence, mitigating circumstances, lack of jurisdiction over the offence, the fact that the suspected offence is not a crime or the fact that a civil remedy is more appropriate than criminal proceedings.

The most recent data shows that in 2023/24 the total number of cases where no action was taken was 13,803. More information is available here.

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