“When Police Scotland was established a decade ago, there were promises that savings would be pumped back into the service. But all that’s happened since then is a reduction in police numbers and cuts in police staff pay. At the same time spending on consultancy firms such as PwC and De...
024 more officers in Scotland on December 31, 2013 than the SNP inherited in 2007, the Scottish Government data shows.The 17,258 full-time equivalent officers is an increase of 6.3 per cent on March 31, 2007.But numbers decreased by 56 in the last quarter and by 178 since December 2012...
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick will remain at the helm of the London force until April 2024. Her five-year contract had been due to end next year. Home Secretary Priti Patel said the extension would provide “continuity and stability as we emerge from the coronavirus pandemi...
Until then, the 43 police forces across England, Scotland and Wales must operate under the same guidance and policies when interacting with sex workers to bring about consistency, predictability and trust. Police forces must conceive of sex workers as a population of legally working adults, ...
POLICE presence at airports and other sensitive sites in Britain is being stepped up following the explosions in Brussels, Scotland Yard said Tuesday. "As a precaution, forces across the UK have increased policing presence at key locations, including transport hubs, to protect the public and ...
The most recent figures show Police Scotland had 17,256 full-time equivalent officers on December 31, 2017. The draft 2018/19 budget allows for 17,134 police officers, which would take the numbers below the Scottish Government’s commitment for a 1,000 increase from 2007, scrapped in 2016....
Scotland Yard disagree. A spokesman is reported by the Mail as saying : “The Met does not believe that Mr Settle was “hounded out” of the organisation.” To my mind there is one big unanswered question in all this. Given the high profile role and all the complexities of the Westminste...
The Scottish government responded byasking HMICSto do a review, but only of events in Scotland since 2000. Now eighteen people have written to HMICS, decrying both the remit and the choice of the body itself. Most of them were so heavily spied upon that they are among the 200 people des...
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, and although this will cause great dismay to many Brexiteers Europe also has the same level as Scotland with no issues making the roads safer all. It’s about time we woke up and caught up, a reduction in the drink drive level leaves no uncertainty such as the situation we have ...