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Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
An investigation has begun into the way police responded | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
to calls from the public about a parked van in | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Stirlingshire in which a man's body was later found. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
It's the latest concern about call handling and comes as emergency | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
services gear up for their busiest time of the year. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Here's our home affairs correspondent, Reevel Alderson. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
The front line for police, calls from the public range | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
from emergencies to domestic abuse, wildlife crime, and | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
And this is the busiest time of the year. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
But how is public confidence in police call handling? | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Operators at the Bilston Glen call centre failed to tell officers | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
about Lamara Bell and John Yuill, who lay in their car on the M9 | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Four months later, police apologised to the family of pensioner | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Janet McKay after faults in their investigation | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Like the case of Inverness pensioner Albert Insch found | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
dead two months ago, the independent police | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
investigator PIRC was asked to review police actions. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
It is now also investigating the police response to calls | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
about a van in which a man's body was found in Dunipace, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Opposition parties are also demanding answers. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
We do need to find out what has gone wrong, | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
whether it is the front line, with the pressure on front-line | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
police officers, or Bilston Glen, with the old story about | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Whatever it is, we do need to understand what has gone wrong | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
The Government says it'll await the outcome | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
of the PIRC investigation, but the Justice Secretary says | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
he is confident that police call handling procedures have improved. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
It is appropriate that we allow that investigation to take its course, | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
but the staff within our call centres do a very good job | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
and there have been significant changes in the way in which our call | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
I am confident that over the coming weeks that we are making as much | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
progress as we can to ensure that all of our emergency | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
services are working in a coordinated fashion. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
Police say 30 recommendations made by the Inspector of Constabulary | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
following the M9 incident have been implemented, with a new | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
process to ensure high standards of call handling. | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
What our process has done, though, is indicate that 99.996% | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
of our calls were handled without any issue at | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
So I am entirely confident in our process and the | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
The force says it cannot comment on the incident in Dunipace | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
while the investigation by PIRC is continuing. | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
Security surrounding Edinburgh's Hogmanay | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
celebrations are to be reviewed following the terrorist | :02:49. | :02:49. | |
Police emphasise there's no specific threat but that the public | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Our correspondent Andrew Kerr reports. | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
The joy of Christmas, bright lights, tasty food, | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
and a seasonal atmosphere at Edinburgh's market, | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
but those festive lights have been deemed at Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
after Monday's terrorist attack which left 12 dead. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
A delivery lorry was turned into a deadly weapon. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
But back in Scotland, people say you cannot live in fear. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
If something like that's going to happen, it is going to happen, | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
and there's nothing you can do to stop it from happening. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
I feel a bit kind of isolated here in Scotland, so you feel | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
If you look at it and think, "Are we going to get attacked today?" | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
The Berlin attack comes as police are preparing | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
The message that we keep constantly repeating is be aware | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
of your circumstances and your surroundings, | :03:48. | :03:48. | |
If you see something suspicious, if you feel uncomfortable | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
about something, approach a police officer and tell them | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
In Aberdeen, the organisers of the Christmas Village are working | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
with police as the First Minister also says to be aware. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
We must be vigilant, the police will continue to be vigilant, | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
the Scottish Government, working with their partners | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
in the UK Government and with both the police and the intelligence | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
agencies, will continue to make sure we are vigilant, | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
but the public should also be vigilant as well. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
The threat level is still "Severe", defined as an attack | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
But as the police said, people should not be alarmed. | :04:24. | :04:39. | |
The second big storm of the winter is expected to cause | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
widespread travel disruption in the run-up to Christmas. | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
CalMac is advising ferry travellers to check for updates with winds | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
of up to 90 miles an hour due to hit the west of the country on Friday. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
In Shetland, at Lerwick this lunchtime, travellers headed | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
for the Aberdeen ferry which had been bought forward five | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
hours to try to beat the worst of the weather. | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
They were very keen to make it south for Christmas. | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
I was supposed to be leaving on Friday - | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
I'm working up at the gas plant - but due to the weather conditions, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
I have had to leave today otherwise I will be stuck in Shetland over | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Christmas, which I don't quite fancy. | :05:11. | :05:11. | |
Sometimes we are delayed, sometimes we get away on time, | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
You can see the wind is gathering, so effectively, these northbound | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
straits will hit the Western Isles... | :05:20. | :05:20. | |
At Loganair HQ, they are keen watches of the weather. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
They have been booking people onto flights going today | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
and tomorrow to try to avoid the worst of the storm | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
Friday will see the storm at its worst, and we have moved | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
a number of flights earlier in the day to try and plan around | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
the weather forecasts, and for a small number of flights | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
later in the day we have decided to cancel them based on the forecast | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
showing there is no reasonable prospect of being able to fly. | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
Travellers here at Glasgow Airport are pretty relieved to be getting | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
away today for Christmas, rather than leaving it | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
to the end of the week, when that storm will be | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Were you always going to travel today? | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
I was supposed to be travelling on Friday, I had to change it | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
You wanted to get home for Christmas? | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
I did not want to spend it in Glasgow. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
I had always planned to travel to Shetland today, | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
My brother was travelling on Saturday, but he has | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
So you will be both home for Christmas. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
In Kirkwall, it will be breezy on Friday. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
There has been a frenzy of changing of plans here too. | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
We go south for Christmas, we were due to go on Christmas Eve, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
then we changed it to Friday because of the weather, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Spare a thought for around 100 staff on this oil | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
The seas will be too high for the helicopters to operate | :06:49. | :07:04. | |
there, so it looks like they won't now get home for Christmas. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
For others still heading for that family reunion, though, | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
the advice from ferry operators like CalMac is keep | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
checking the websites, because there will be disruptions. | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
Storm Barbara is bearing no gifts - only very high winds. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
And we will have a full weather forecast at | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
Aircraft and drones have been banned from flying over a house in Inverkip | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
which is being searched by police looking for missing | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
The 36-year-old was reported missing by her carers eight weeks ago. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
It's 17 years since she was last seen in public. | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
Police Scotland have been searching the house | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
Today they said there is now an air restriction zone over | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Let's take a detailed look at the weather from Kawser. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Thank you. The only good news I have is that from the model the days will | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
be getting longer. We have had some wintry showers today and we will | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
continue to see them as we head through the night. There were some | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
continue to see them as we head clear spells across Murray to allow | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
one of our Weather Watchers to capture the Northern Lights error of | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
this evening. Tonight, though showers are mainly across the North | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
West, falling as low over higher ground, Suite four Bob levels and | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
strong winds. Gales with a mate of in yellow BA were warning enforced | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
throughout the model across the North West and the Northern Isles. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Showers elsewhere. If you are heading out around it or call | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
tomorrow morning there will be wintry showers and possibly icy | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
stretches where overnight temperatures could follow to | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
freezing for many inland areas and towards the North East. For the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
central belt, some wintriness and showers for a time but more in the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
way of dry weather as we head through the day. If you are heading | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
out anywhere tomorrow with travel plans, a lot of dry weather across | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
England and Wales and for Northern Ireland we will see some wintry | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
showers and stronger winds. Across the South of England, ten or 11 | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
degrees. As you have heard, so far Storm Barbara is heading towards us | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
and by Friday morning it will bring some heavy rain, strong winds, in | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
particular across the North West of the country, but that strong wind | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
warning is across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, a | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
yellow BA were weather warning with gusts of up to 70 mph widely. There | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
could be up to 80 or 90 mph through the middle part of the day. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Transferring across to the Northern Isles by the end of the day, so | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
there could be likely disruption. Here is the map for Friday. Rain | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
pushing across the West, heaviest across the Southern and Western | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Highlands, Dumfries and Galloway as well, Easter Road is the only breaks | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
but also wintriness. That could cause problems for transport. Some | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
structural damage is likely across the very fast North West, where | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
gusts could reach up to 80 or 90 mph. Whatever your plans, take care | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
gusts could reach up to 80 or 90 if you are heading up. That is your | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
forecast. But, from everyone | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
on the late team, goodnight. | :09:59. | :10:04. |