The Scottish Crime campus opened in 2014 now houses 1100 workers from 18 key organisations.
The four-storey building at Gartcosh in Lanarkshire resembles the swish headquarters of a financial company.
Police rub shoulders with Scottish government officials, prosecutors, forensics, customs, environmental protection officers and even staff from the Department of Works and Pensions. Their activities include drugs, smuggling firearms, human trafficking, child abuse and sexual exploitation, serious fraud, cyber crime and illegal dumping.
Kenny Donnelly, deputy crown agent at the Crown Office, Scotland's prosecution service, said some of the people they’ve jailed thought they were untouchable.But that success has to be seen in the context of Scotland’s death rate from drugs, for years the worst in the UK and the rest of Europe.
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