Scotland sleep walking into State Polis controlled by Justice minister.
SNP and K McKaskill should hang there heads in shame following a Labour- Tory agenda for a Police State.
Oh! We will have MSPs looking at this - Oh! where local (local Government accountability.
If MSPs don't have enough to do look at the still numerous quangos.
Get a grip SNP, a majority this time does not mean a majority next time and then the majority may well find other uses for a politicaly controllend polis force.
All about money - absolute s***e. You won't improve my local force detection rates etc.
Where in any SNP manifesto has this been agreed - Oh we have a majority in Parliament so we can do what we like. Rock on Tommy - 5 years and then we will see.
Forget your roots at your peril.
Shame on you.
Jeane Freeman - 13 years ago
There is no essential contradiction between one police force and local policing - it all depends on how you structure and organise it. What is clear though is that with 8 forces we have 8 differnet ways of doing things and 8 different ways of spending money. Crime does not organise itself neatly in that way. Reducing from 8 to 3 or more is just plain daft in my view since what you then get are 3 or heaven help us, even more larger fiefdoms fighting with each other and none of the savings in support cost [which are potentially significant]. I commend the Government for doing this radically - unlike previous ones who bottled it and, for example, fudged the issue of criminal justice services at a local level to give us the costly and almost totally, ineffective additional bureacratic tier of Criminal Justice Authorities - which just kind of 'launder' the money between SG and local authorities who keep on doing what they have always done..............
Scotland sleep walking into State Polis controlled by Justice minister.
SNP and K McKaskill should hang there heads in shame following a Labour- Tory agenda for a Police State.
Oh! We will have MSPs looking at this - Oh! where local (local Government accountability.
If MSPs don't have enough to do look at the still numerous quangos.
Get a grip SNP, a majority this time does not mean a majority next time and then the majority may well find other uses for a politicaly controllend polis force.
All about money - absolute s***e. You won't improve my local force detection rates etc.
Where in any SNP manifesto has this been agreed - Oh we have a majority in Parliament so we can do what we like. Rock on Tommy - 5 years and then we will see.
Forget your roots at your peril.
Shame on you.
There is no essential contradiction between one police force and local policing - it all depends on how you structure and organise it. What is clear though is that with 8 forces we have 8 differnet ways of doing things and 8 different ways of spending money. Crime does not organise itself neatly in that way. Reducing from 8 to 3 or more is just plain daft in my view since what you then get are 3 or heaven help us, even more larger fiefdoms fighting with each other and none of the savings in support cost [which are potentially significant]. I commend the Government for doing this radically - unlike previous ones who bottled it and, for example, fudged the issue of criminal justice services at a local level to give us the costly and almost totally, ineffective additional bureacratic tier of Criminal Justice Authorities - which just kind of 'launder' the money between SG and local authorities who keep on doing what they have always done..............