Leading policy adviser and consultant Blair Gibbs has been appointed as the new director of The Police Foundation. He will ...

Police Scotland have paid the family of tragic Lamara Bell more than £1million in compensation since 2021. Lamara, 25, and partner John Yuill , 28, died in July 2015 after their car careered down ...

Former police chief and convicted killer and rapist Grant Hardin escaped from a prison in northern Arkansas on Sunday afternoon.Here's what we know right now:Escaped from a prison at Calico ...

Scotland's cash-strapped police force is spending nearly £3million this year on diversity staff and training - despite being unable to investigate all crimes due to budget cuts.

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 2014, after the establishment of Police Scotland and the SPA, the Scottish Government spent £6 million on the new DNA testing facility, but a decision not to re-test samples predating 2014 ...

Police Scotland has been accused of backtracking on a pledge to conduct a "wide-ranging" review of the force’s sex and gender policies. Initially, the probe was expected to take in operational ...

The number of road traffic officers in Police Scotland has fallen to its lowest level in the last five years, new figures show. Full-time roles fell from 567.7 in 2019 to 518 at the end of June ...

Police Scotland officers were told they would have to shave off their beards Police Scotland has scrapped plans that would have seen many frontline officers and staff having to shave off facial ...

Defence solicitor Quentin Muir said: "This is a very difficult case. He is a 43-year-old man originally of the Skegness area. "He was in various reports a Royal Marine Commando at one stage and ...

Elsewhere, South Wales Police has deployed LFR on 119 occasions. The data shows there were 72 resultant arrests, but LFR also produced 2,833 false alerts.