This morning, Reporting Scotland, in an interview with a police trade union rep, tell us a tale of understaffing and increased pressure. The story is nowhere else. It’s not even on the BBC Scotland website (different editor?). It hasn’t been fed to the Herald and there are no reports of such pressure anywhere else in the UK. We don’t hear these, the facts, of course: Staffing: The chart below plots total police officer strength (FTEs) for Scotland from 1985 to 2020.  It shows long term, steady rise followed by a short period of rapid rise, and then by a period … Continue reading Crime plummets, staffing 50% higher than in England but Reporting Scotland peddle a different tale