Black Isle woman tried to bite two officers
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Elizabeth Gibson also made racially abusive remarks to one of the officers, who was Polish.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that on April 8, police control room staff had received a 999 call from Castle Street in Fortrose.
Depute fiscal Fiona Murray said a female voice was heard but officers found no-one near the phone box.
“On entering Cathedral Square, however, they saw Gibson running in the direction of her home,” she said.
Gibson has a record of making hoax calls to the police.
The fiscal said later she was seen by police again walking in the direction of the phone but when she saw the police she ran away.
It was when she was spoken to by the police about these matters she began acting aggressively and carried out the assaults.
Gibson (27), of Cathedral Square, Fortrose, admitted three charges of police assault and acting in a racially aggravated manner towards one of the officers.
Sentence had been deferred for a background report and solicitor Ken Ferguson said that report made a case for a community-based disposal.
It was fortunate, he said, none of the officers sustained injury.
But Sheriff Fleetwood told Gibson the reports on her were always that “she’s remorseful and is not going to do it again”.
He said: “The trouble with your behaviour is you are going to get fed up of going to jail long before I get fed up of sending you to jail.
“If there was an element of truth in you saying that you are going to change your ways, then I may have considered a community-based disposal.”
He jailed her for six months backdated to April 9.
