Attacks on firefighters down in 2013-14 for third year running

The total number of incidents where attacks occurred decreased from 81 in 2012-13 to 69 incidents in 2013-14.

Since 2010-11 the number of incidents where attacks on firefighters have occurred are down by 60 per cent.

Assistant chief officer Lewis Ramsay, director of prevention and protection, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (pictured), said: “While it is disappointing to see from the statistics that there were 69 incidents involving an attack on our staff in 2013/14, I acknowledge that this was 12 less than in the year before. We are committed to keeping our staff safe as they go about their work protecting Scotland.”