The van returned full of drugs (Picture: PA)

Police reportedly left a hire van filled with bags of cannabis after it was used on a drugs raid.

The haul in the back of the vehicle was apparently forgotten about when officers let Mitchell’s Self Drive worker John McKinnon collect it.

Mr McKinnon, 33, told Scotland’s Daily Record: ‘There were bin bags full of cannabis. There was no mistaking what it was. I went running into the office and we phoned the police.

‘Straight away, they said someone was going to get their b***s kicked. But it still took them an hour-and-a-half to come back out to collect it.’




The father-of-two went to Coatbridge to collect the van, which was hired by police in Lanarkshire, and drove it back to Rutherglen, near Glasgow.

‘They gave me the keys in a sealed blue bag, walked me out to the van, opened the gates and away I went,’ Mr McKinnon said.

‘There was a strong smell of cannabis in the cabin but it was only when I got back to the office and opened up the back that I realised what was in it.

‘I’ve no idea how I would have gone about explaining what had happened if I’d been pulled over during the journey. It’s scary.’

Mr McKinnon said when police arrived to collect the drugs they were dumbfounded why they had been left there but ‘there was no word of an apology or even a thank you’.

He added: ‘I’m angry that they allowed me to drive it away like that.’

A police spokeswoman said: ‘We can confirm that we are investigating a report that a vehicle hired by Police Scotland has been returned allegedly with what is believed to be police productions inside.’