East Kilbride and Avondale are home to 41 sex offenders East Kilbride and Avondale is home to nearly a quarter of South Lanarkshire’s sex offenders. Police Scotland figures obtained by the East Kilbride News under the Freedom of Information Act show that, as of March 20, there were 35 convicted paedophiles, rapists and sex attackers…
Q&A with Justice Secretary Michael Matheson Holyrood asks Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, about some of the key issues on the justice agenda https://www.holyrood.com/articles/inside-politics/qa-justice-secretary-michael-matheson Police given powers to seize betting slips and jewellery Police fighting organised crime will be able to seize items including betting slips, casino chips, jewellery and precious stones from suspects. Michael…
Outcry over division of new community police officers in Borders A former Borders police chief has slammed the decision not to base any officers making up the region’s new community policing team in Hawick. Watson McAteer, now a councillor for Hawick and Hermitage, says that the new team of a sergeant and six officers, due…
Making Celtic and Rangers meet in potential title decider risks taking a backwards step warns former police chief SPFL chiefs would be taking too big a risk if they were to make the last Celtic v Rangers clash of the season a potential title decider, according to former police chief Les Gray. League bosses are…
Scottish police wasted more than £2k by putting wrong fuel in cars Scottish police officers wasted more than £2000 of taxpayers’ money last year after filling their patrol vehicles with the wrong fuel. Police Scotland officers got it wrong at the fuel pump 16 times, leaving vehicles having to be taken off the road for…
REVEALED: Volunteer special constable numbers in Tayside down 50% in just five years The number of special constables in the region has dropped from 127 in 2013 to just 64 this year, according to figures obtained via a freedom of information request. Special constables are part-time, volunteer officers who give up a minimum of 96…