Crime

Officers have issued a further warning to retailers and people who may handle cash as part of their work to be on the look out following a number of reports of counterfeit notes being used.

Shoplifting increased by more than 51% in Kincardine and Mearns in the past year.

Ahead of the weekend and Christmas festivities, Road Policing officers are urging motorists to not to drink and drive.

This week officers from the Divisional Alcohol Violence Reduction Unit (DAVRU) have been supporting local Community Policing Teams across the North East to target violent offenders in the lead-up to Christmas and New Year.

Police and partners in Aberdeenshire have rolled out their highly successful ‘Safer Streets’ festive policing initiative in Aberdeenshire.

Police have condemned vandals who targeted a Mearns school.

Police are trying to trace a man who stopped and offered a teenage girl a lift in Stonehaven.

Police in the North-east have renewed their warning about drink driving.

People in Aberdeenshire are being urged to help eradicate hate crime by reporting any acts they witness, as National Hate Crime Awareness Week takes place (13-20 October).

A new partnership dedicated to tackling rural crime in the North East and improving safety in remote communities has been launched.

Police are seeking witnesses after properties and businesses in the Portlethen area were targeted by thieves.

A campaign launched in 2017 in Aberdeen to help people who feel uncomfortable or unsafe on dates, in the company of others, or any other social situation, is being widened to the whole of the North East.

A police investigation is under way after the theft of a forklift and farm machinery near Newtonhill.

Police are seeking witnesses following a break-in to a house in the Cammachmore area.

More people have been charged as part of a continuing crackdown on antisocial behaviour, violence and drugs in south Aberdeenshire.