Tag: Strathclyde Police

Senior Scottish minister blasts Old Firm thugs as “barbaric”

Shaun Milne - May 6, 2009

By Michael MacLeod OLD Firm football thugs who beat their wives have been slated as “barbaric” by a senior Government minister ahead of Saturday’s potentially...

Scots gun cops fire Olympic blanks

Deadline News Journalist - February 16, 2009

By Michael MacLeod SCOTLAND’S armed police officers have been banned from the London Olympics after failing to hit the target in shooting tests. A report, ordered...

£20,000 bill for police mistake

Deadline News Journalist - December 15, 2008

By Cara Sulieman POLICE spent almost £20,000 searching for a missing man when he lay dead in his own front garden. Alan Goulden went missing from...

Knife haul shredded in police crackdown

Deadline News Journalist - November 24, 2008

By Karrie Gillett MORE than 3,000 dangerous knives have been destroyed after being seized from the streets. The haul of offensive weapons came about during a...