The findings come as a police officer has been forced to leave her job due to the trauma of attending a crime where she and her colleague were attacked with a knife.

NHS workers are enduring the largest number of violent incidents, suffering around 31 attacks per day in hospitals and health centres.

Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, prison staff, shopworkers, railway staff and teachers are among those on the front line who have been targeted.

Analysis by 1919 Magazine, a monthly justice and social affairs publication funded by the Scottish Police Federation, has uncovered the scale of the crisis, with an average of 58.2 attacks recorded every day where data is available.

Police officers suffered 18 assaults per day in 2022/23 which, while a slight reduction on the previous year, still accounted for a total of 6,657 cases. In more than a quarter of these episodes, officers sustained notable injuries.

Last month, Scott McGregor was jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty to the attempted murder of one police officer and assaulting two others during a frenzied attack which took place in a flat in Glasgow’s Lambhill in October 2022.

A new law designed to clamp down on people assaulting or abusing shopworkers has resulted in almost one conviction every day since it came into force.

Figures released by the Scottish government reveal there have already been more than 500 convictions under the Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Act, which came into force in 2021. And in the 11 months to November 2023 there were 2,233 assaults recorded – the equivalent of roughly seven per day.

Prison officers sustained a significant increase in assaults from inmates, with the 279 recorded incidents in 2023 a substantial rise on the 178 the year before.

Firefighters were attacked on 80 occasions, while violence on trains and in railway stations has caused ScotRail to announce in recent weeks that it intends to triple body-worn cameras for its frontline staff.

No nationwide figures are available for recorded assaults on teachers, however a number of union and Scottish Government surveys have revealed a rising tide of aggression in schools.

Compensation pay-outs to teachers injured by violent pupils nearly doubled to £500,000 last year.