Police Scotland has started a national roll out of body-worn video cameras. Over the next 18 months, 10,500 will be issued across the country to officers up to the rank of inspector, as well as ...

‘In that time, both Police Scotland and the SPA ignored internal and external warnings.’ Ms Murray added: ‘The SPA also needs to treat potential breaches of the human rights of ...

Officers at Police Scotland are suffering from burnout after 68,000 days off were cancelled in just six months. The cops in Greater Glasgow, Tayside, and Lothian and Borders have also complained ...

This was the week when we discovered that either Scotland has the world’s most ineffectual police force or that someone very high up in the nation’s justice system decided just to arrest Ms ...

Police Scotland has told the SPFL they are "open to discussions" on lifting football’s booze ban, The Herald can reveal. Documents released through Freedom of Information show that they are ...

The family of Sheku Bayoh have reached an out-of-court settlement with Police Scotland after moving to sue the force following his death. Mr Bayoh, 31, died in Kirkcaldy, Fife on May 3 ...

Police Scotland has insisted that custody is “no place for children and young people” and set out “a collective desire not to have children in our care for any longer than is absolutely ...

have settled their damages action against Police Scotland. Mr Bayoh, 31, was restrained on the ground by six officers in Kirkcaldy in May 2015. Relatives launched legal action in 2018, seeking £1 ...

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Both Sturgeon and former SNP Treasurer Colin Beattie were arrested in 2023 as part of Police Scotland’s Operation Branchform probe of the ruling party’s finances. The pair were released pending ...

Police Scotland has said the investigation into the former first minister, and ex-SNP treasurer Colin Beattie, has ended. Nicola Sturgeon spoke to the media outside her home near Glasgow after the ...