Dumfries councillor slams Police Scotland recruitment freeze

Off-duty officers and staff from the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file ­officers, will descend on Holyrood on Wednesday to lobby ministers.

A Scottish Labour councillor has been charged in relation to alleged grooming offences following a police investigation in Fife.

Police have launched a frantic search for a woman missing from East Kilbride.

A forensic search on a street in Glasgow is linked to an alleged attempted murder outside a shop in Pollok two weeks ago.

Some homeowners in Dumfries and Galloway are facing a potential council tax hike of 22.5 per cent.

A motorcyclist has sadly died in hospital after being involved in a crash with a motorhome in the Scottish Highlands.

Officers in Manchester have confirmed they received a complaint after the ­publication of the party’s accounts last week by auditors in the city.

The son of a Scots grandad who had his thumb ripped off by a devil dog has hit out at Police Scotland and prosecutors for their lack of action after the attack. The American Bulldog, named Pablo, mauled the 72-year-old pensioner as he tried to protect his own pet dog in Blackburn, West Lothian, in July 2021.

A hero Scots police dog who had a chunk of his ear ripped off by a vicious thug is looking for a forever home after leaving the force. PD Remo was honoured for bravery alongside his handler PC Paul O'Donnell in 2020 by former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon after the pair were attacked with a metal bar in Ayrshire.

Nicola Sturgeon has had her £600,000-a-year police security removed, according to reports.

Plans to raise council tax by charging people in higher bands around 24 per cent more are not being supported by Falkirk councillors.

Police have released an image of a TRNSMT reveller they would like to speak to following a violent attack at the festival.

The path to true love didn’t run smoothly at first for Harvey and Birgit Shaw.

A woman who lived with her killer fiancé to help detectives gather vital evidence against him is to launch legal action against police.

Youths in Scotland have been urged to speak up over violence after a teen killer who stabbed a schoolboy in the heart was jailed for life.

Police investigating the deaths of two teenagers who both attended an event at a Glasgow nightclub have confirmed they are not connected but suspected to be drug related. Two 18-year-old males died after DJ Ben Hemsley headlined a rave at a SWG3, on Eastvale Place in the West End, on Saturday.

Four people have been charged following a high-speed chase on the M8 in West Lothian. Officers were called to reports of a stolen car on the M8 Junction 4A near Heartlands at around 6.50pm on Sunday evening, August 13.

A Kilmarnock road was shut down by police after "medical matter" unfolded in the town.

A man has been found dead on a Scots street.

A man has died after being found with serious injuries in a Scots village just before midnight on Monday evening.