The number of assaults on Scotland’s paramedics has gone up by more than a quarter since 2005, with 2014s figures reaching a ten year high according to figures from STV.
Police Scotland seized almost 50 knives and over 180 weapons in the last four academic years from pupils in and around Glasgow.
An MSP has called for reform in regards to the Scottish age of criminal responsibility with some MPs stating that the age should be raised.
Police Scotland have launched a new way of tackling serious crime gangs in Scotland after new figures showed that the 230 gangs in Scotland are diversifying.
Despite hiring more officers than ever, Police Scotland is solving fewer crimes, according to the latest criminal stats.
Police are utilising mugshots to cross reference criminals through surveillance cameras according to a new report.
Fewer criminals will have to inform potential employers about their criminal past under new measures set to be introduced by Scottish ministers to help them in their rehabilitation.
The family of a man from Sierra Leone have demanded an inquiry into his death in police custody. The man died from suspected asphyxiation on the street of Kirkcaldy. At the time, he was getting detained by nine officers.
The Scottish government has dropped proposals to end corroboration in criminal cases in Scotland.
The Royal Navy and Border Force have seized a tugboat that was believed to be smuggling cocaine into the country.
The Scottish justice secretary John Scott QC is to lead an inquiry into the Police use of stop and search in Scotland, which could lead to a total ban.
Newly published figures have shown that a stark increase in the number of sexual offenders re-offending once they are released from prison.
Almost 20,000 people were stopped and searched by police in 2014, with a one-year-old being stopped in North Ayrshire as part of police strategic tactics to prevent crime.
Scottish International, Ryan Wilson, has been found guilty of assaulting two men in Glasgow’s West End.
The new legislation licensing airguns will fall short in tackling the criminal misuse of the weapons according to a spokesman from the Scottish Police.
On Tuesday 21st October 2014 Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in jail for manslaughter by Judge Thokozile Masipa in Pretoria’s High Court. The duration of this sentence and its putative effect has seen much discussion in the media.
A South African Judge determined that Oscar Pistorius was not guilty of premeditated murder, after firing four fatal shots into his bathroom with his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp inside. The judge had to decide between “dollus eventualis” (common murder), culpable homicide or acquittal after clearing Pistorius of the premeditated murder charge.
One in six (17%) female motorists thought they might have driven whilst over the legal limit in the past year, according to new research from Direct Line Car Insurance and Rees Jeffreys Road Fund.
Malcolm Webster, who murdered his first wife by staging a car accident and attempted to murder his second wife in the same way, is further appealing his life sentence claiming that he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
