Force beats report target

Police are meeting targets to submit at least four out of five reports to the procurator fiscal within 28 days, new figures have shown.

Officers from Lothian and Borders submitted a total of 6322 reports to the fiscal between April and June, with 89 per cent arriving before the four-week target set for the force.

A total of 195 reports, or three per cent, took longer than 56 days to be handed over. The number of reports handed in within the four-week target was 79.1 per cent for 2008-9.