Police have arrested and charged two people after a woman reportedly coughed in an officer's face and a man tried to avoid arrest by claiming he had coronavirus symptoms.
The two people were nabbed in the space of a week, in West Dunbartonshire.
Cops swooped on a 37-year-old woman in Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, after she was reportedly drunk while in charge of a child under the age of 10.
She allegedly started shouting, swearing and making abusive comments to cops in the town's High Street, and was taken to Clydebank police station where she reportedly coughed on an officer.
The woman will appear in court charged with being under the influence whilst in charge of a child, breach of the peace, and culpable and reckless conduct amid the coronavirus pandemic, on March 23.
And police officers called to a house in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, on March 27.
A 32-year-old man reportedly claimed to have Covid-19 symtoms in a bid to prevent his arrest.
Arrangements were made to take the man to a police station, but he then told officers he did not have symptoms of the condition.
The man is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal for allegedly attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Gil Paterson, Clydebank's MSP, said: "The police are very much on the frontline, along with our other vital emergency services.
"Instances of their time being wasted in attending incidents of reports like these are not on and must stop.
"The police are, in most cases, the first people we turn to, no matter the emergency.
"We are now in this major emergency of something we have never experienced before or had to deal with, and we need the police to be there for us without having this deplorable anti-social behaviour on top to attend to."
David Hamilton, chair of the Scottish Police Federation, hit out at the 'sickening' behaviour against cops.
He said: "Police officers are now joining health professionals on the frontline of this crisis as we try to keep people safe.
"It is sickening then that people resort to this kind of behaviour against those that are trying to protect society.
"This reckless conduct threatens the safety of not just those officers, but their families too.
"Anyone found to be trying to deliberately spread this deadly virus needs to be punished severely and a clear message sent out that society will not tolerate such attacks on its police officers."
