A new study claims that Scotland's age of criminal responsibility should be raised in line with the rest of Europe. The Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice (CYCJ) also argues that children and young people should have their criminal records wiped sooner. At the moment, the age of criminal responsibility [...]

Police in Glasgow detected almost 25% more drug supply cases between April and June this year after setting a target to find more people dealing in illegal drugs. A quarterly report on the city by Police Scotland Chief Superintendent Andy Bates reveals that 263 drug supply cases were detected between [...]

Non-statutory stop and search activity by Scottish police officers cost taxpayers almost £10 million last year, the Sunday Herald reported this week. The majority of stop and search procedures undertaken in Scotland are non-statutory, which means that they are premised on verbal consent. The controversial searches are aimed at finding [...]

Police officers have raided shops and business premises across Scotland and seized over 3,000 satchets of so-called "legal highs" in Edingburgh, Police Scotland has revealed. Raids also took place in Ayr, Glasgow, Musselburgh, Dundee, Arbroath, Aberdeen and Peterhead, and three men have been charged with culpable and reckless conduct, according [...]

Some communities in Scotland are being unfairly targeted for stop and search, according to a new analysis by equality group CRER, the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights. While there is no evidence of widespread targeting of non-white groups, figures from Police Scotland's Local Policing Management Information reports suggest that [...]

Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said this week that he supported the controversial Police Scotland policy on armed officers. After Police Scotland was established last year, Chief Constable Sir Stephen House took the decision to make specialist armed officers available right across the country 24 hours a day, 7 days [...]

Ten Scottish life prisoners have been told that it was a breach of their human rights to deny them the right to vote. Judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said that the rights of the prisoners were breached by the UK government but ruled that no compensation [...]

Police Scotland has arrested 339 suspected paedophiles since April last year, according to a publication on the Scotland Police website. The detentions are part of continuous operations aiming to safeguard potential victims and punish criminals, the article stated. The process of identifying online pedophiles was performed in all of Scotland's [...]

3% of adults in Scotland were subject to psychical or psychological partner abuse last year, the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey 2012/13: Partner Abuse Statistics of Scotland's Chief Statistician shows. Overall, the nature of partner abuse experienced by individuals from the age of 16 broadly depended on the victim's gender; [...]

During Police Scotland's first year as a single service, housebreakings in Edinburgh skyrocketed by almost 40%, with only 25% of such burglaries having been solved by the authority, new figures show. The data reveals that an average of 11 properties a day were targeted by robbers in the capital, with [...]