Publication: Fire and Police - Performance indicators 2000/01

The main finding of the report is that, although modest, there continues to be an overall improvement in the performance of Scotland's police forces and fire brigades in 2000/2001. Overall, police forces cleared up 44% of crimes, which is a year on year improvement since 1996/97 and a 1% improvement on the previous year. Scotland's fire brigades attended about 84,000 reported fires in 2000/2001, 2,500 more than the previous year. Despite the increase in the number of fire calls, brigades attended slightly more, 91.7%, within agreed target times, than last year (90.8%).