{"id":820728,"date":"2026-11-01T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820728\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:34:10","slug":"police-tackle-144-halloween-fireworks-incidents-across-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820728\/","title":{"rendered":"Police tackle 144 Halloween fireworks incidents across Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police Scotland received 144 fireworks-related calls on Saturday night &#8211; down on 160 on 31 October last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fireworks were thrown at people, buildings and vehicles in some parts of Scotland on Halloween. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers said in general there was &#8220;outstanding behaviour and co-operation&#8221; around the country but were working to identify to those responsible for disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firework Control Zones (FCZs) &#8211; where it is an offence to set off fireworks &#8211; are in place in 14 areas in Edinburgh and four in Glasgow until early November, and dispersal zones are in force in some places. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Halloween there were reports of fireworks lit in the street and some thrown at members of the public in Glasgow, Tranent in East Lothian and Bonnyrigg in Midlothian. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said no officers were injured and inquiries to identify those involved were ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Scotland received 144 fireworks-related calls on Saturday night &#8211; down on 160 on 31 October last year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-820728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}