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Emergency Services
Irene Oldfather (Labour) | Question S3W-40115
To ask the Scottish Executive how many attacks there were on emergency workers while on duty in 2010, broken down by local authority area.
Kenny MacAskill (Scottish National Party)
Number of crimes of an attack on an emergency worker recorded by the police in 2009-10, by local authority area.
| Local Authority Area | 2009-10 |
| Aberdeen City | 244 |
| Aberdeenshire | 63 |
| Angus | 78 |
| Argyll and Bute | 65 |
| Clackmannanshire | 54 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 113 |
| Dundee City | 152 |
| East Ayrshire | 126 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 63 |
| East Lothian | 38 |
| East Renfrewshire | 39 |
| Edinburgh City | 370 |
| Eilean Siar (W.Isles) | 24 |
| Falkirk | 122 |
| Fife | 363 |
| Glasgow City | 1,327 |
| Highland | 157 |
| Inverclyde | 54 |
| Midlothian | 46 |
| Moray | 64 |
| North Ayrshire | 99 |
| North Lanarkshire | 456 |
| Orkney Islands | 3 |
| Perth and Kinross | 118 |
| Renfrewshire | 233 |
| Scottish Borders | 72 |
| Shetland Islands | 11 |
| South Ayrshire | 72 |
| South Lanarkshire | 365 |
| Stirling | 88 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 138 |
| West Lothian | 103 |
| Scotland | 5,320 |
2009-10 is the first year in which all police forces started consistently recording minor assaults on police officers, as assaulting an emergency worker under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005. As a result, previous years data will not necessarily have included all emergency workers. Data for years prior to 2009-10 is available at police force area level in the paper Assaults on police officers and other emergency workers, in Scotland, 1999-00 to 2008-09 published by the Scottish Government in June 2010, a copy of which is available in the Scottish Parliament’s Information Centre (Bib. number 50564).