An off-duty police officer helped a woman to safety at Arbroath cliffs yesterday.
The alert was raised just after 10pm following concerns for the woman.
The Arbroath lifeboat was called out to attend as well as three coastguard teams, but the woman was helped to safety by the police officer.
A spokesman for the Coastguard said: “There was an incident last night.
“We got the call from police at 10.05pm and then we got the Arbroath lifeboat out at 10.10pm and it was about 11pm we stood the lifeboat down.
“We had our coastguard teams from St Andrews, Carnoustie and Montrose in attendance as well.”