Cops descend on Scots street after man 'spotted carrying machete'

cops want to carry guns amid shock figures showing 40 per cent of officers had been assaulted in the last year. The findings published today by 1919 Magazine reveal 53 per cent of Scots police ranked a handgun in the top five pieces of protective equipment they 'would like'.

Bo'ness over the weekend.

arrested in connection with the death of a Scots woman was found dead in a car. Jane Fitzpatrick from Glenrothes was discovered on Monday, August 9 at around 9am.

Kilmarnock around 6pm on Sunday, August 29. A man and a woman were able to help the man after he was left with injuries but had left by the time the Police Scotland officers arrived.

cocaine in it on a Scots road. James Wightman's Ford Transit was pulled over on the M74 northbound near Moffat in July following a probe by organised crime cops.

probe has been launched after a hooded man attacked a woman on a Scots street. The 48-year-old woman was assaulted on Shanwell Road in Carnoustie, Angus around 9.45pm last night.

raced to a Scots street this evening. A huge police response, including at least four vehicles and two vans, were filmed on Minto Crescent, in the Macedonia area of Glenrothes, Fife this evening.

Scots street has been locked down by police after a man was found seriously injured following a suspected shooting. A huge emergency services presence was reported on Westray Street in the Milton area of Glasgow.

Edinburgh. A court heard the 54-year-old HR worker was left “scared” by her former partner’s behaviour and “sought refuge” in her Vauxhall Crossland.

woman in a Scots town causing her "considerable distress". Officers first responded to a report of the incident on Springbank Road, Paisley at around 11.35pm on Saturday August 14.

Aberdeen. The 18-year-old was reportedly assaulted around 12.55am last Tuesday on Bon Accord Street in the Granite City.

Motherwell on Sunday evening where numerous police vehicles and an ambulance were seen parked outside. Locals said there had been an assault in the back garden of a flat block on the street but this has yet to be confirmed.Police officers remain on the scene this evening and part of the garden has been taped off.

Possil Road. It's understood the crash involved one vehicle.

Larkhall.Police were reportedly called to the scene on Glen Avenue, next to Robert Smillie Memorial Primary School, in the early hours of August 21. Officers remain at the scene on Saturday with the property cordoned off as enquiries remain ongoing.

Firefighters rushed to David's Loan in the Langlees area of Falkirk, just after 4am on Saturday August, 21, after reports of a vehicle ablaze.

Police swarmed a Scots street after a man fell out of a window. Mercy crews raced to the Main Street area of Lochgelly in Fife last night after the alarm was raised.

blazes broke out in Pollokshields on Tuesday morning as fire crews scrambled to the scene at around 2.35am.Pictures showed massive black smoke clouds billow from Maxwell Road area leaving neighbours shocked.Police confirmed they believe the fires to be 'wilful' and are probing the incident.One vehicle is believed to have been set alight on Herriet Street before the fire spread to a car parked behind it.And another vehicle was then said to have been torched on nearby Maxwell Road, before that

Newtongrange, just before 9pm on Saturday evening and currently remain in attendance. It is understood the road has been locked down by cops as police helicopters circle the area.