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We have launched a pioneering partnership with blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan which could help save the lives of hundreds of people with blood cancer.
For the first time in its history, Police Scotland will work in partnership with a charity to recruit police officers to the national stem cell donor register.
With hundreds of healthy young recruits joining the police force every year, this could result in lifesaving matches for blood cancer patients in Scotland and around the world.
As part of the collaboration, police recruits, are given the opportunity to hear a presentation during their time training at the Police Scotland College and will have the opportunity to join up as a potential donor for someone in need of a lifesaving transplant.
At the launch of the partnership on October 4, probationers who choose to join the register will be asked to fill in a medical form and give a saliva sample.
They will then be added to the register and notified if they are a match for someone in need of a stem cell transplant.
As many as 800 recruits can be trained in a year at the College based at Tulliallan.
They will be invited to a donor registration event at the college, which will also be open to serving officers who are visiting the college.
Further to that we are supporting hate crime week which started on October 8.
As we have previously highlighted in this article we would ask that victims of hate crime to not suffer in silence and we strongly encourage victims to come
Don’t leave your vehicle unattended with the engine running. A vehicle was stolen this week . .
forward.
We do take these matters extremely seriously and over the weekend two persons were charged with alleged hate crime, one of a sectarian nature and the other homophobic.
As winter approaches I would ask that you don’t leave your vehicle