PARTICK police station, best-known as Taggart’s police office, locked up its last prisoner in 1993, before its own front door slammed shut for the last time.
The office, which also had a role in the Bible John murder inquiry, saw its 150 police officers move to a £3million purpose-built office 500 yards away in Dumbarton Road.
It was the end of an era for the B-listed building which had been a police office for 138 years and found fame worldwide from 1985 as the backdrop for Taggart, originally starring Mark McManus.
Since 1970, the files of the Bible John murder case had been housed at the offices, after the murderer’s third victim was killed nearby in Earl Street, Scotstoun.
Statistically, Partick Police Office was the second busiest in Scotland.
Supt Jim Fleming, above, said: “It is the real old-
fashioned police offices. It is often the first police station people phone with information even though a crime may have been committed eslewhere. Thousands of Glaswegians have spent a night in its cells. ”
Perhaps not the happiest memories for everyone, then.
Sister Young and Dr Johnston show off the drip set, defibrillator and oxygen set that made up some of the equipment of a mobile heart health unit which was based at Glasgow’s Victoria Infirmary
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