A DUNBAR resident has been placed on a supervision order after she admitted assaulting a police officer.

Claire Ingle kicked out at PC Kim Allen after she had been taken to Dalkeith Police Station following an incident at the town’s Summerfield Road last year.

Ingle kicked the constable to the shin before striking her to the face and also threatening to commit suicide.

Ingle began acting in an aggressive and threatening manner at the station when she shouted offensive remarks towards the police officers.

Ingle told one constable she was “a f****** lesbian” and told her “you only want to see my t***” when the officer was carrying out a body search on the woman.

She was warned of her conduct and was placed in a cell but she soon began demanding to see her lawyer.

Ingle then tied a piece of clothing around her neck and threatened to harm herself before she was led to an observation area of the station’s cell area.

The 25-year-old pleaded guilty to the offences when she appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court earlier this year.

She returned to court last week, where Sheriff Alistair Noble said it was “appropriate to make a community payback order” in this case.

The sheriff ordered Ingle to be placed under supervision by the local authority for the next 15 months.

Solicitor Rebecca Weissgerber said Ingle was a user of street valium and she had “no good recollection” of the incident at the police station.

Ingle pleaded guilty to acting in an aggressive manner, uttering offensive remarks towards police officers and threatening to commit suicide at Dalkeith Police Station on August 27 last year. She also admitted assaulting PC Kim Allan by pushing her on the body, kicking her on the body, striking her to the face and seizing her by the hair during the same incident.

Ingle also had not guilty pleas accepted to two further charges of assaulting a man and to shouting, swearing and uttering threats of violence at Summerville Road, Dunbar, on August 27 last year.

Co-accused Christina Storer, Ingle’s mother, walked free from the dock after she had her not guilty pleas accepted by the Crown.