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