Strathclyde Police proved themselves to be one of the finest Scottish pipe bands at the Cowal Highland Gathering, where they sealed fourth place in the Champion of Champions for 2009.
They finished in fourth place in the Grade 1 competition. They were placed in third by both the piping judges, fourth by the drumming judge and third again by the ensemble judge.
For their march, strathspey and reel set they played Links of Forth, Atholl Cummers and MacAllisters Dirk.
Strathclyde Police Pipe Band is one of the oldest and most prestigious pipe bands in the world today.
The pipe band is made up of serving police officers from the Pipe Band Unit – a fully operational unit based at Glasgow City Centre Police Office. The officers carry out a range of police duties, including uniform and plain clothes patrols, community safety, drugs awareness, training, public order and firearms duties.
The Cowal Highland Gathering took place in Dunoon at the weekend, and among other events there is the final major pipe band championship of the year.
As is traditional, after the results were announced many of the massed bands then paraded down Argyll Street as an impressive finale to the three-day gathering which attracts thousands of visitors to the area.
