To think that a National Scottish Police Force is possibly not the best idea ever?

[Salmotrutta]

They have just been reporting the appointment of the new Chief Constable for the National Force on BBC Scotland.

Yes, I get that they may save money by centralising control BUT ...

Policing in the Highlands and rural areas will be vastly different from somewhere like Strathclyde or Lothian.

I'm not sure one Chief Constable (from The Big City) with overall control of a National force will understand the challenges of policing vast beats that stretch over thousands of square miles in the Highlands or Islands.
Even Tayside and Grampian have huge rural areas within their different divisions.

And the local bobbies in a rural beat will have very different daily challenges to those they have in a city surely?

Under the present system the Chief Constables are at least familiar with their Force's divisions and what is required

I'm just not sure "one size will fit all" here ...

And are they going to do this elsewhere in the UK does anyone know? I'm interested!

We pull other people's toes off round here CatPower ...

Bloody hell, 3,000 support staff redundancies apparently according to the paper today! I know there's a lot of duplication in the service, but that's 50%.

It's good news for us as in the highlands families had to move every 5/7 years and do island postings but now with the one force coming into place this should be scrapped.
We have spent the best part of two years building out dream home and now we should be able to stay in it!

And that toe snapping man was hilarious - the look on Ross kemp's face when he said 'ave got two o them on tap o the telly!' was utterly brilliant.
The question really should be why are we paying him £70 a week to sit in his flat drinking and snapping off parts of his body....but I suspect that's a whole other thread