Motorists heed the call on mobiles

“This was on the Sunday, and by the Tuesday we had arranged to meet up with Cochrane and carry out the deal – I came straight from work at 5pm and we arrived in Inverness around 7:30pm.

“By this time we had masses of e-mails and texts, and enough evidence for the police, but we wanted to make sure 100 per cent we had the right dog. When it recognised Anna’s partner we called the police.” THE number of drivers caught using their mobile phones behind the wheel in Scotland has dropped in the past year, according to police figures.

A total of 28,121 drivers were caught using a mobile or personal handheld device between September 2013 and September this year – down more than 5,000 on the figure of 33,175 for 2012-13.