Police Scotland

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) has published a plant industry best practice guide to bridge strike avoidance in an effort to educate the plant industry, reduce the estimated 2,000 road and railway bridge strikes that occur each year, and keep members of the plant industry and all road

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) is set to spearhead the production of much-needed comprehensive industry guidance on bridge strike avoidance in the transportation of plant and equipment. The move follows an industry summit hosted by the SPOA this month which brought together key represe

A man has died after an 'industrial accident' at a property in the Scottish Borders.

A man has died after an incident at a Glasgow building site yesterday morning.

Almost a quarter of a billion pounds is required over the next decade to bring Police Scotland's "mouldy" and "leaky" estate up to a "reasonable condition", the force has said.  Chief financial officer James Gray said a survey of more than 300 buildings found the estate to be in a "pr

Communities and businesses within Scotland's construction sector are being urged to be vigilant and report signs of modern slavery with the launch of a new Police Scotland campaign to raise awareness of the issue.

The former police headquarters in Edinburgh is to be sold and demolished to make way for hundreds of homes in a deal with the City of Edinburgh Council. Detailed plans for the redevelopment of the site have been outlined in a document which labels the station "under utilised, inefficient, ageing, in

Investigations are under way into the circumstances of a boy's death at a building site in Glasgow last night.

Aberdeenshire Council's Local Review Body is to carry out a review into plans to build a block of flats behind a police station in Inverurie.  Police Scotland submitted plans to build nine two-bedroom flats in a three-storey block on land next to the police station on Blackhall Road in Inveruri

Space at a former office building in Anniesland will soon become home to a new training facility for Police Scotland’s dog training unit thanks to housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel. Willie MacKinnon, contracts manager at Mactaggart & Mickel, (left) with PC Alex Bell