People in Scotland have handed in more than £150,000 of lost money to police a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Scotsman report: 

OVER £50,000 of lost cash was handed in to Tayside Police by members of the public last year, according to new figures.

Freedom of Information requests reveal that over 6,000 people across Scotland handed money in to their local police station between October 2011 and October 2012.

You can read the full story here.

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.