No cases of 'spiking by injection' detected according to Police Scotland
A top Police Scotland official has said they've not been able to find evidence of any 'spiking by injection' incidents after a spate of reports in October
A top ranking Police Scotland official has said they could find no evidence of 'spiking by injection' after a spate of reports.
The force received over 50 reports of people believing their were spiked by way of a needle last year.
Reports were made across Scotland, including in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
It led to a petition calling for mandatory searches at the doors of nightclubs, which gathered over 170,000 signatures.
Many of the claims were made in October, with various people taking to social media to report becoming unwell and finding puncture marks on their bodies following nights out.
But Detective Chief Superintendent Laura McLuckie told a Police Authority meeting this week: "we don't have any identified cases of any spiking by injection in Scotland at this time."
She continued: "We are only now starting to see the results of the forensics. I'm pleased to say that we're not seeing any drugs within people's systems that we would class as being a drug that would be used in spiking.
"We will obviously continue to monitor over the coming weeks and months."
During the meeting it was reported incidents of spiking - by any method - are on the "downward trajectory" and that no reports of spiking by injection had been filed in the last week.
Of course Covid restrictions could have a part to play in that, with nightclubs closed over the festive period in a bid to control the spread of omicron.