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  1. Drug traffickers who ran massive street Valium operation jailed for 10 years

    Two men have been jailed for a total of 10 years for running a huge drugs operation worth thousands of pounds.

    News Published: 03 Apr 2025
  2. Lord Advocate: Protection of sex crime victims is priority

    Lord Advocate welcomes IPS report

    News Published: 19 Oct 2022
  3. Man who delivered ‘wages’ to gangland figures jailed for four years and eight months.

    Career criminal Gerard McTaggart, who acted as a wages paymaster to elite gangland figures and their families, has been jailed for four years and eight months.

    News Published: 07 Aug 2023
  4. About COPFS

    Information about our role as Scotland's prosecution service and death investigation authority. Plus, published reports and statistics, and job vacancies.

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  5. Businessman who defrauded firms in £630,000 swindle imprisoned for five years

    Businessman Barry Mackland, who defrauded firms in £630,000 swindle, jailed for five years

    News Published: 14 Aug 2025
  6. Solicitor General launches specialist training for new Act

    Scotland’s prosecutors have begun training in preparation for new domestic abuse legislation which is due to come into force in 2019

    News Published: 26 Nov 2018
  7. COPFS joins with Edinburgh University to help victims

    COPFS joins with Edinburgh University to help victims

    News Published: 08 Jul 2022
  8. Lord Advocate announces review of diversion from prosecution for sexual offences

    Review ordered by senior law officer in recognition of the impact of sexual crime on victims

    News Published: 14 Jul 2023
  9. Hare coursing trio sentenced

    Three men have been sentenced after admitting using dogs to hunt wild hares. 

    News Published: 05 Jun 2023
  10. Former Quarriers Village worker found to have sexually abused children

    Former Quarriers Village worker found to have sexually abused children

    News Published: 10 Sept 2025