Nearly 1000 calls to Caithness police over two-month period

Just short of 1000 incidents were reported to police across the Caithness area over a two-month period.

According to the latest local community engagement report delivered by area inspector Stephen Mezals at an Association of Community Councils meeting in Thurso, between December 1 last year and January 31 a total of 948 incidents were reported.

Of that total, 137 (14.45 per cent) were found to have been criminal incidents and were recorded as such.

From these calls, and from additional crimes and offences discovered by officers on patrol, there have been 275 criminal charges recorded.

It should be noted that a single criminal "incident" may involve multiple criminal charges.

A breakdown of call types for the period reveals:

• 129 incidents for assisting members of the public (zero resulted in a crime being recorded)
• 102 incidents for road traffic concerns/hazards (four – 3.9 per cent – resulted in a crime being recorded)
• 79 incidents of abandoned or silent 999 calls (zero resulted in a crime being recorded)
• 74 concerns for person incidents (four – 5.4 per cent – resulted in a crime being recorded)
• 70 incidents for road traffic collisions (17 – 24.3 per cent – resulted in a crime being recorded)
• 39 incidents for domestic incidents (11 – 28.2 per cent – resulted in a crime being recorded)