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What’s The Noise? Planning exercise with firearms at Murrayfield today

Exercise Kukri Dawn firearms training at Murrayfield Stadium

Police Scotland is working with the military as part of a training exercise. Exercise Kukri Dawn, led and managed by the RAF, is taking place from 23 February until 13 March 2026.

It was previously exercised in 2025. One of the objectives is to further improve and test how the military work with the police. Planning for the latest round of exercising and scenario has been ongoing for months.

TODAY (Tuesday 3 March), armed policing will be involved in a firearms training scenario at Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. This means the public may see armed police officers and military personnel, as well as military helicopters, arriving at Murrayfield.

The public will also hear blank ammunition being used from around 1.30pm – 2.30pm.

There will be no public access to Murrayfield during this time and nothing will be seen once those involved are placed inside the grounds.

Exercises are a crucial way for different organisations to learn, share knowledge and work well together. It’s important for exercises to be as realistic as possible to fully test a multi-agency response.

The public should rightly expect Police Scotland, alongside other organisations, to practice and strengthen our response to major incidents.

Police are working with the stadium who will be notifying residents in the surrounding area.

Multi service exercise to train new staff to deal with road accidents

The Scottish Ambulance Service, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland held a training exercise in the Borders recently for students and new recruits to practice responding to a road traffic collision (RTC).

The Scottish Ambulance Service, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland held a training exercise in the Borders recently for students and new recruits to practice responding to a road traffic collision (RTC).

The exercise was held at Galashiels Fire Station on the 7th March and Hawick Fire Station on Tuesday the 14th March , with the aim of teaching participants  from each emergency service how to deal with a collision.

The mock exercise – held on the two nights with different groups of attendees – involved a two vehicle, high-speed, head-on collision, and saw different levels of responses.

Paramedic Lee Myers, SAS’s lead for the exercise, said: “This training has been designed around student and new recruit development, as we continue to welcome new staff into the Service.

“The exercise involved dealing with a serious RTC, with Police Scotland, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service attending alongside the Scottish Ambulance Service.

“The participants from all the services did a fantastic job dealing with the incident which included casualties with potentially serious injuries.  We also had approximately 20 Queen Margaret University student paramedics attend on the night and crews dealing with a traumatic cardiac arrest, a roof off extrication, patients being fully immobilised, and much, much more.  

“The three services share an excellent working relationship and this has been a great opportunity to work on improving communication and joint agency working.   I would like to say a huge thank you to all involved for making this training exercise such a success.”

Area Commander Hilary Sangster is the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service’s Local Senior Officer for Midlothian, East Lothian and Scottish Borders.

She said: “Exercises such as this are important and hugely worthwhile for our firefighters to train to protect our communities alongside emergency service colleagues in a unique and dynamic environment – and also follow several months of planning.

“I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved and especially Station Commanders Grant Fraser and Roy Bradley, and our partners for their continued commitment to this multi-agency training.”