Crime

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.

Police are seeking witnesses after a young woman had her handbag snatched in the Maryculter area.

Police Scotland’s new Chief Constable started his first day in the role by speaking to the force’s newest recruits.

Police Scotland are appealing for information following the recent theft of copper pipes from a building site in Chapelton.

Police are seeking witnesses after a number of cars were vandalised in Stonehaven.

A man has been charged in connection with an alleged robbery in Stonehaven.

A police operation got under way this week to prevent an increase in anti-social behaviour and vandalism among young people in Kincardine and Mearns during the school holidays.

A total of 23 people have been charged in relation to drink/drug driving offences in the North East as part of a national summer drink drive campaign.

Alarming new figures reveal more than a quarter of teenagers confess to behaving in a way that could endanger their life on the railway – and one in admitted to walking along the railway line.