A Lanarkshire postcode has the more sex offenders living in it than anywhere else in Scotland.
The according to the latest findings released by Police Scotland, which show the ML1 postcode has 67 registered sex offenders staying there - an increase from 65 registered in March.
That number is the highest across the whole of Scotland, with Aberdeen's AB24 and Perth's PH1 having the second and third most, with 57 and 52 respectively.
ML2, which covers most of Wishaw, has 51 registered sex offenders staying there - a reduction of two from the last time the stats were released.
Lanarkshire has 530 registered sex offenders in the community and 166 in custody or hospital.
As of July 1, only one area has more registered sex offenders staying there than Lanarkshire.
The only region to have higher is Glasgow, which has 706 in the community and 250 in custody or hospital.
Detective Superintendent Paul Cherrie told Lanarkshire Live : "Police Scotland, working with our Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements partners, manages 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, 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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