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COPFS
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Trafficked: concerns over criminalisation of young Vietnamese found in cannabis factories
Human rights organisations claim young trafficking survivors in Scotland – including Vietnamese children found in cannabis factories – are being criminalised instead of protected.
Snooping fears over police seizing a hundred phones a day
Police Scotland has admitted seizing more than a hundred mobile phones a day, amid mounting calls for the government to clarify the rules that protect citizens from police snooping.
Thousands of Glaswegians let off with £1.5m in litter fines
Nearly 19,000 litter louts caught in Glasgow have been let off paying £1.5million worth of fines, The Ferret can reveal.
Government spends just £13,000 on corporate transparency ‘crack-down’
UK Government plans to “crack down” on the potential for Scottish Limited Partnerships to be used to facilitate organised crime have been revealed to consist of a £13,000 "programme of letter writing.”
No prosecutions for failure to pay minimum wage
Not a single UK firm has been prosecuted for paying poverty wages since February 2013.
