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| Parties pledging action on crime | Parties pledging action on crime |
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| The Holyrood election focus will shift to crime with all the parties promising action on justice issues. | The Holyrood election focus will shift to crime with all the parties promising action on justice issues. |
| Labour will offer "instant" Asbos where police could take immediate action. The LibDems plan up to seven years jail for knife crimes. | Labour will offer "instant" Asbos where police could take immediate action. The LibDems plan up to seven years jail for knife crimes. |
| The SNP wants action on firearms, with powers transferred from Westminster, and more community sentencing. | The SNP wants action on firearms, with powers transferred from Westminster, and more community sentencing. |
| But the Conservatives rejected sentences in the community, calling for extended jail terms instead. | But the Conservatives rejected sentences in the community, calling for extended jail terms instead. |
| Conservative leader Annabel Goldie is to outline the party's proposals to "keep prisoners in prison, rather than put convicts in the community". | |
| Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Nicol Stephen moves his party's campaign focus to cutting crime. | |
| Mr Stephen will be in Glasgow, Edinburgh and a youth project in Dunfermline, accompanied by Charles Kennedy. | |
| Labour's Jack McConnell and Cathy Jamieson head to Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, where they will speak with local businesses about the ending of a recent dispersal order. | |
| Later they will attend a public meeting and set out their crime and anti-social behaviour agenda. | |
| Elsewhere, SNP Leader Alex Salmond will highlight firearm crime as well as campaigning on plans to abolish the council tax and replace it with a "fair, local income tax" based on the ability to pay. |