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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S4W-02952

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many precognitions of Scottish Police Services Authority forensic experts, excluding fingerprint experts, were or have been carried out in (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011, broken down by forensic service.

Question reference: S4W-02938

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, whether it will make available the scenes of crime examination standards and procedures referred to by the Scottish Police Services Authority's Director of Forensic Services in evidence to the Fingerprint Inquiry on 13 November 2009.

Question reference: S4W-02946

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what training police officers have in relation to forensic examination of scenes of crime involving firearms and who provides such training.

The primary role of police officers at any crime scene is one of preservation of evidence. The examination of forensic evidence is the domain of forensic scientists. As recruits, police officers are trained at the Scottish Police College and must complete a module on forensic evidence. This module includes preservation of evidence, the risks of evidence contamination and initial actions to be taken at a crime scene. The Scottish Police College also provides further forensic evidence training to Detective Officers.

Question reference: S4W-02942

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Police Services Authority checks for non-compliance with the scenes of crime examination standards and procedures and how many instances of non-compliance have been recorded since their introduction.

Question reference: S4W-02940

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions since November 2009 the national scenes of crime examination standards and procedures have been updated.

Question reference: S4W-02944

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures are in place for the forensic investigation of scenes of crime involving firearms.

Question reference: S4W-02955

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the next inspection of the Scottish Police Services Authority by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for Scotland is scheduled.

Question reference: S4W-02939

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the scenes of crime examination standards and procedures referred to by the Scottish Police Services Authority's Director of Forensic Services in evidence to the Fingerprint Inquiry on 13 November 2009 were first introduced.

Question reference: S4W-02945

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether established procedures for the forensic investigation of scenes of crime involving firearms were adhered to in relation to the double shooting at a cottage near Tomintoul on 12 April 2011.

Question reference: S4W-02941

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive who accredited the scenes of crime examination standards and procedures referred to by the Scottish Police Services Authority's Director of Forensic Services in evidence to the Fingerprint Inquiry on 13 November 2009.