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  1. 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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  2. 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
  3. Garage owner jailed for trafficking drugs and acting as go-between for gun search

    Kristopher Kinnaird, who supplied drugs and offered to source deadly weapons to criminal associates, has been jailed for six years.

    News Published: 11 Nov 2025
  4. 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
  5. COPFS joins with Edinburgh University to help victims

    COPFS joins with Edinburgh University to help victims

    News Published: 08 Jul 2022
  6. Hare coursing trio sentenced

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

    News Published: 05 Jun 2023
  7. Two men who ran clearing house for £3million in drugs money are jailed

    Two men who turned an industrial unit into a clearing house to distribute more than £3million in drugs money jailed total of nine years and two months.

    News Published: 09 Apr 2026
  8. Company director who defrauded thousands of pounds from former partner jailed

    Andrew Polson, director of a Christian charity radio company who defrauded thousands of pounds from a former partner, has been jailed for 22 months.

    News Published: 19 Nov 2025
  9. 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
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