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In Scotland, researchers have been at the heart of police reforms – all very different to south of the border.
Naloxone programmes have sprung up in the UK and elsewhere, but drug death rates keep climbing.
Only 5% of rape complaints in the UK end in convictions – what a legacy for the #metoo generation.
The lamentable Police Scotland saga continues as its second chief constable resigns and an undercover policing report denies any wrong doing.
The Scottish police debacle takes another twist as the justice minister intervenes to prevent the chief constable returning to his post following bullying claims.
After a series of high-profile resignations and allegations of misconduct, effective leadership of Scotland’s centralised police force is lacking.
With the Scottish government’s reputation for policing and justice charred from nine years in office, here’s what the future looks like.
The Met’s fingerprints are all over the havoc a few hundred miles north.
When it comes to queer rights, a new BBC documentary demonstrates that it is not so long since Scotland was the UK’s regressive laggard.
Here’s a figure that deserves some attention: in the first year in which Scotland had a single police force, 8,000 stop searches were carried out by armed response officers, an average of 29 searches by…
As was confirmed recently by figures from Police Scotland, there has been a 23% increase in recorded cases of rape north of the border over the past year. In 2013-14, the first year of Police Scotland’s…
As police inspector Nick Glynn commented earlier this week, most discussions on the subject of stop and search begin with something like, “stop and search is an essential crime fighting tool”. This prevents…
Break out the bunting: this month sees the first anniversary of one of the most important developments in the policing in Scotland – the creation of a unified force. Police Scotland was created through…
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