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Interim guidance around searching of transgender persons and searching by transgender officers and staff has been issued today, Wednesday, 25 June 2025

The Police Scotland-chaired Scottish Partnership Against Rural Crime (SPARC) has launched its 2025-2028 strategy.

Police have recovered drugs with a significant street value estimated at approximately £7million following a search of a derelict property at High Street, Kirkcaldy.

Seven men have been arrested and charged in connection with drugs offences following a day of action in Aberdeen on Monday, 16 June, 2025.

A 29-year-old man has been jailed for nine years and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for the rape of a teenage girl in Falkirk town centre, which took place on Monday, 16 October, 2023.

A further three men have been arrested in connection with Operation Portaledge, the ongoing investigation into violent incidents in the East and West of the country.

missing persons

Allan Bryant Main

Allan, who was 23 when he went missing, was last pictured on CCTV in Caskieberran Road, Glenrothes, shortly after 2am on Sunday, 3 November, 2013.

Kenneth George Jones

Police are continuing to appeal for information about a missing man in Fife, who has not been seen since Tuesday, 3 November, 1998.

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Shaun Ritchie was last seen on Friday 31 October 2014 and Police Scotland would like to remind members of the public that he is still missing and enquiries to trace him are ongoing.

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Mary Duncan disappeared from her home in West Dunbartonshire in 1976, when she was 17 years old. She was last seen leaving her home in Alexandria on 19 March that year, after telling her family she was going to meet a friend, but never returned.