{"id":62816,"date":"2026-10-15T19:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/armed-police-arrest-man-on-small-orkney-island\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:11:42","slug":"armed-police-arrest-man-on-small-orkney-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/armed-police-arrest-man-on-small-orkney-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police arrest man on small Orkney island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>A man has been arrested by armed police on an island in Orkney.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers travelled from mainland Scotland to the island of Flotta and executed a warrant at around 16:15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 61-year-old man was arrested in connection with threatening and abusive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ch Insp Scott Robertson said there is no risk to the public and inquiries into the incident are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three police vehicles from mainland Scotland arrived in Orkney by ferry on Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were seen driving at speed with sirens and blue lights to catch a local inter- island ferry to Flotta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flotta is a small island with a population of around 80 people and one shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It lies in Scapa Flow between the larger islands of Hoy and St Margaret&#8217;s Hope and is known for its large oil terminal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqkg5782nvvvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested by armed police on an island in Orkney. Officers travelled from mainland Scotland to the island of Flotta and executed a warrant at around 16:15. A 61-year-old man was arrested in connection with threatening and abusive behaviour. Ch Insp Scott Robertson said there is no risk to the public and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3063,4496,3142,417,5635,599,350],"class_list":["post-62816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-armed","tag-arrest","tag-island","tag-man","tag-orkney","tag-police","tag-small"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62818,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62816\/revisions\/62818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}