There are almost 650 registered sex offenders are living in the Edinburgh and Lothians.
Police Scotland has released the latest figures by council area and postcode and they show (EH54) which includes West Lothian areas Livingston, Uphall and Broxburn have the highest number with 48.
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Shortly followed by Leith (EH6/EH7) both with 38 bringing the Leith area to a total of 76.
West Lothian areas EH48 and EH49 were near the top of the list too with 22 and 29 registered sex offenders living in postcodes that include the Armadale, Blackburn, Bathgate, Fauldhouse areas.
EH17 including Gilmerton, Mortonhall and Moredun has 20 and EH16 which covers Craigmillar and Niddrie had 42.
In the city centre Southside, Northfield and Meadowbank has 16 while EH3 including Inverleith, Warriston, Tollcross, Fountainbridge has 3 and EH9 including Blackford, Marchmont and the Grange has just 10.
The EH postcode take in a huge area, including West Lothian, Midlothian and East Lothian as well as the whole of Edinburgh and there is a lot of variation in the volume of sex offenders across the different council areas.
The total list can be found below.
EH1-10
EH10- 11
EH11-43
EH12-13
EH13-7
EH14-37
EH15-15
EH16-42
EH17-20
EH18-1
EH19-3
EH2 -Exempted under FOI(S)A
EH20-7
EH21-23
EH22-26
EH23-3
EH24-2
EH25-2
EH26-8
EH27-2
EH28-2
EH29-2
EH3- 10
EH30-3
EH31-2
EH32-7
EH33-4
EH35-1
EH36- Exempted under FOI(S)A
EH39 -2
EH4- 34
EH40 -2
EH41 -6
EH42 -6
EH43 -Exempted under FOI(S)A
EH44 -1
EH45 - 1
EH46 - 1
EH47 - 22
EH48 - 29
EH49 - 16
EH5 - 16
EH51 -12
EH52 - 19
EH53 - 8
EH54 -48
EH55 - 8
EH6 - 38
EH7 - 38
EH8 - 16
EH9 - 6
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A spokesperson explained: "Police Scotland, working with our MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements) partners, manage registered sex offenders (RSOs) across all of Scotland's communities.
“Every single offender is assessed and managed in line with the risk they present. Sexual re-offending rates of RSOs remain very low.
“While we can never completely eliminate risk, Police Scotland and MAPPA partners use robust risk assessment processes, and a range of investigative tools including the latest technologies, to manage RSOs, mitigate risk and to protect the public."
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