, which happened just off the M9 near Stirling, Scotland, by a passer-by who dialled 101.... 4 Lamara

Police received a call from a passerby, but it took them three days to respond as Lamara Bell and

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Almost two million calls to Scotland’s police force were ended before being answered in the last three years, new figures show. Statistics released to the Scottish Tories under freedom of information found that 1, 878, 727 calls to both the non-emergency and emergency numbers were discontinued between the beginning of 2018 and November of last year.A discontinued call, Police Scotland say, is where a caller hangs up before speaking to an adviser. The vast majority of abandoned calls were seen in

Sir Steve House, the controversial former head of Police Scotland, is to lead the Met until Dame Cressida Dick’s replacement is appointed, the Home Secretary has said. Dame Cressida, who announced her resignation last month, will formally leave her post in April, with Sir Steve – her current number two – taking temporary charge while the ongoing recruitment process continues. The timing of Dame Cressida’s departure means the ‘partygate’ investigation is unlikely to be concluded before Sir Stephe