Crime and justice
No-one caught for drone drug deliveries to prisons
No-one has been caught for using drones to smuggle contraband drugs, tobacco and mobile phones into Scottish prisons, The Ferret can reveal.
Liam McArthur
Crime and justice
Police criticised for refusing to say how many children detained
Police Scotland has been criticised for being ‘unable or unwilling’ to provide figures on the number of children kept in custody in Scotland.
Crime and justice, Privacy and surveillance
Prisoners outwit £1.2m mobile phone blocking technology
Calls for a privacy probe after Scottish Prison Service is first UK agency to admit using controversial phone blocking technology.
Politics
Named: MSPs forced to repay £12,000 claimed in expenses
Two former Conservative MSPs were forced to pay back £12,512.56 to the public purse after over-claiming on their office expenses.