Covid restrictions were lifted, with nine in the past three months. Although there is no specific offence of dogging, people can be charged with having sex in a public place, lewd behaviour or indecency.
Those involved could end up on the sex offenders’ register. Police can also issue a fixed penalty or hand out a warning. Figures obtained by the Sunday Mail involve offences in which dogging was mentioned in police reports.
The data shows that Glasgow is Scotland’s dogging capital, with 26 cases in the last three years. Lanarkshire had 22 cases, Dunfermline and Inverness both had seven reports, with four each in Paisley and Kilmarnock, and two each reported in Falkirk and Aberdeen.