{"id":383521,"date":"2025-08-29T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383521\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:08:16","slug":"investigation-launched-after-substance-discovered-inside-edinburgh-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383521\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched after substance discovered inside Edinburgh police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An investigation has been launched after a substance was discovered inside a Midlothian police station.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were alerted to the incident at Dalkeith Police Station at around 10.30am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The substance was deemed not to be harmful, and no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation to establish the full circumstances is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 10.30am on Friday, August 29, we received a report of a substance found at Dalkeith Police Station, Newbattle Road, Dalkeith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency services attended and the substance is not believed to be harmful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one was injured and there was no risk to the wider public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation has been launched after a substance was discovered inside a Midlothian police station. Emergency services were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-383521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115114338279539987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}