On the beat

Children caught with weapons in stop-and-search blitz
Children caught with weapons in stop-and-search blitz
Officers narrowly avoid head-on collision after being assaulted in car
Cops could be dismissed for failing vetting
Cost of housing a prisoner approaches £50,000-a-year
The recruitment and retention crisis facing Police Scotland
The devastating impact of Scotland’s retail crime epidemic
Meet the heroic woman who has fought for improvements to officers’ kit after her husband was killed on duty
Round-up of policing and justice developments
Demand for ‘safe spaces’ to help force cope with mental health crisis
Only one-in-three rail workers feel safe on Scotland’s trains
Crackdown results in more positive results for drug driving than alcohol
Dramatic fall in court fines for littering
TV criminologist bids to overturn a murder conviction
The doctor in charge of the UK’s first drugs consumption room on its first weeks of operation