An 81-year-old woman in Dundee city centre was the oldest person in the country to be subjected to a police stop and search procedure.
The woman was one of 18 people over the age of 65 who have been stopped by police and searched since April this year.
She was found with stolen goods in her possession and later charged.
Local police said the search was justified in the circumstances and had a positive result – one where an offence has been identified.
At the other end of the age scale, a 12-year-old girl from the East End of Dundee was searched and was also found with stolen property.
The cases were among 835 stop and search procedures carried out in Tayside and Fife, from a total of 8,598 nationally.
Ninety seven of the 266 people stopped and searched in Dundee were found to have committed an offence
Just under 36% of the searches conducted across Scotland produced a “positive” outcome, according to police.
More than 9.5% of those stopped by police identified as being from a minority ethnic background. However, fewer than 29% of those from minority backgrounds produced a “positive” search for police.
Slightly more than 88% of those searched were of White British, Welsh, English or Scottish ethnicity. Just short of 36% of those searched who identified as white British produced a positive result for police.
A total of 487 under-16s were searched, with the two youngest being 11. Both 11-year-olds were searched for weapons but neither was found to be carrying one.
More than 23% of those under the age of 16 produced a positive search for police.
Officers conducted 409 strip searches during the last quarter, the youngest of whom was 15. The search of the teenager was for drugs in town of Elgin, in Moray, but the search proved negative.
The oldest person strip searched was a 69-year-old male in Inverness, who was found with class A drugs on his person.
The Scottish Police Federation said there had actually been a drop in the number of searches being recorded.
David Hamilton, vice-chairman of the body, said: “The important measure is how this correlates to crime measures as this drop in stop and searches appears to correlate with a rise in crime.
“Further analysis will be needed to show if those trends are linked but it is exactly what the Scottish Police Federation warned would happen when new restrictions on stop and search were introduced.”
Police Scotland was approached for comment.
