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One of Scotland s top police officers says discretion and common sense are what made lockdown policing a success.
Now 33,000 people have reviewed the force s performance during the pandemic.
Deputy Chief Constable Will Kerr has told BBC Scotland the force didn t seek the extra powers and knew it had to had to tread carefully.
He said that at the start of the first lockdown police knew people would be frightened and that the unprecedented rules could have been perceived as draconian. Emptied back offices
He said: We knew very quickly we would have to focus on two things - we knew the public would be scared. This was totally unprecedented. They would be anxious, they would need reassured.
Police Scotland is consulting on introducing bodycams for armed officers. (Ian Rutherford/PA)
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The public are being asked for their views on the use of bodycams by Police Scotland, as the force looks to roll out the technology.
Scotland’s top police officer, Chief Constable Iain Livingstone has already said the use of body worn video (BWV) equipment to armed police is a “pressing, critical, ethical and operational imperative”.
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image captionAbdelbaset al-Megrahi died in 2012 but his family pursued the posthumous appeal
Scottish judges have rejected a third appeal on behalf of the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
The family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who died in 2012, argued that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
But the Court of Criminal Appeal upheld the verdict of the original trial, which took place at special Scottish court in the Netherlands in 2001.
Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted over the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988.
All 259 passengers and crew on board the flight were killed, along with 11 people in Lockerbie who died when the wreckage fell onto their homes.