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Originally Posted by Chris
I have no idea what the SNP or Labour have done to police admin support levels since 1997. My point is, you jumping in to blame the Tories for sacking 23,500 police admin staff is irrelevant to a discussion about whether Police in Scotland can cope with the burden imposed on them by the new Scottish hate crime legislation, which was the issue Jfman was addressing (and which you quoted in your reply). The Tories have not had the power to hire or fire anyone in the police since devolution.
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Seems like a
cop out unless you're also saying Scotland was immune to Westminster budget cuts and iirc 3000 officer and admin staff jobs were under threat from redundancy at the end of last year something Unison said resulted in police officers filling the civilian roles 10 years ago