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Thread Author: Lygonos	Replies: 10

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New Mon 23 Jul 12 15:23

Police restructuring in Scotland - Lygonos

The 8 separate forces in Scotland are being shifted to a national force.

New top job will have a salary of £208,000pa (wiki says 2010 salary for Met Commisioner was 260k).

I don't know much about how the 'force is run, but is this going to be a case of saving money through removing duplicate bureacracy, or an added tier of police politics? Presumably there will still be some regional subdivisions?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-18953538

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New Mon 23 Jul 12 15:28

Police restructuring in Scotland - Zero

How Scotland could justify 8 forces in the first place is beyond me. 3 Maximum.

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New Mon 23 Jul 12 15:39

Police restructuring in Scotland - Falkirk Bairn

Linked to a local authority - Police Forces get the VAT back.

As a 1 x Force for Scotland - they cannot reclaim the VAT.

DOH!

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New Mon 23 Jul 12 15:46

Police restructuring in Scotland - Manatee

Wooden dollars anyway - the VAT goes into, and the costs come out of, the public purse.

I suppose on a local level the Jocks could lose out as the VAT goes to the exchequer;-)

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New Mon 23 Jul 12 16:16

Police restructuring in Scotland - Ian (Cape Town)

Could one of the criteria for the merge be that they pronounce 'Police' properly, lot this Pole-Iss nonsense?

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New Mon 23 Jul 12 17:30

Police restructuring in Scotland - ....

Polis.
“Gi the gear a rest Angus, yir polis, no a superhero!”

Translated:
polis: police;

‘Put the equipment away Angus, you are a policeman, not a superhero.’

stooryduster.co.uk/police

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