Police Wildlife Liaison Officer List

Each Police Force in Scotland has a Police Wildlife Liaison Officers. The MCofS believes that hillwalkers and climbers can play a vital role in the fight against wildlife crime, whether it is in Scotland or across the world. The nature of our activities mean that we may witness wildlife crimes being committed or find evidence of crimes after they have been committed. Furthermore, we may see wildlife crime, or its evidence, when we are overseas, for example the sale of illegal products in markets or the hunting of protected species.

Wildlife crime was covered in a guest article by Alan Stewart of Tayside Police in The Scottish Mountaineer 2 (May 1999). As a result of that article a number of clubs contacted their local PWLO to arrange a club talk on the issue of wildlife crime, and since then the MCofS has helped put local climbers in touch with PWLO's so that climbers can lend their local knowledge about recreational use of crags when there is suspicion of criminals operating in a particular area.

The Police Wildlife Liaison Officers for each force area in Scotland are given below to make it easier for hillwalkers and climbers to make contact. Please use these contacts to report suspicious incidents that you come across, or to arrange for a club talk from a PWLO.