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Professor John Robertson OBA
The Sun ‘newspaper’ this week has been milking Scotland’s dark history of murder, based entirely on offences which took place before the merger of Scotland’s eight regional forces. They have no choice to do so because not only has the murder level plummeted from 64 in 2012/2013, to 44 in 2024/2025, 33% in only 12 years, one of the lowest rates in Europe and well below that in England & Wales, every single cases has been solved.
The merger as with every SNP initiative met with opposition and media criticism. In 2017, the Herald‘s Tom Gordonstoun told us:
THE SNP Government has been accused of “a shocking lack of financial prudence” for pressing ahead with a controversial police merger without a full cost analysis. Labour MSP Mary Fee levelled the charge at Nicola Sturgeon at First Minister’s Questions.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15637528.sturgeon-financial-recklessness-police-merger/
From Police Scotland in March 2024:
Every homicide committed in Scotland since 2013 has been detected by Police Scotland, new figures confirmed today.
In 2022-23, all 52 homicides committed in Scotland were detected.
Latest statistics from Scottish Government, published today, show the number of homicides committed in Scotland continues to reduce.
Police Scotland’s 100 per cent homicide detection rate means that every one of the 605 murders committed since the inception of the single national service in 2013, has been solved.
In addition, a significant number of ‘cold cases’, some committed many decades ago, have also been detected with the culprits identified, often using the latest technologies, and brought to trial. These have included the murders of Brenda Page (1978) and Renee MacRae (1976).
https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2023/october/homicides-in-scotland-2022-23/
BBC Scotland? Several tabloid specials on single cases but not a trace of the above information that the public might want to know about.
How do England and Wales compare? See the table above.
Footnote - I'm taking a wee break from TuS. Should be back in harness by Monday 22 or Tuesday 23 September.
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Enjoy your break very much deserved for all your hard work in countering the lies of MSM.Thank you
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BBC agenda :
” lowest Murder rate in Europe – ignore that …concentrate on Ferries , Drug deaths , GERS , Ferries , midges , Ferries , rain , ….. ”
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Happy holiday John. You work so hard all year long a break from documenting all the lies will do you good. Let’s hope nothing momentous happens in the next week!
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Enjoy both….
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Aww have a good break away John. Take as long as you like. Thanks for all you do for Scotland and independence etc. 🙂
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Thank you. Have a well deserved break!!
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Hi John, Thank God you will be back, the information and analysis you provide is really of prime important and just not available anywhere else. I hope our politicians are reading it too.
I use it on two Facebook Pages.
Many thanks,
Brian Powell
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Time for a breather. Haste ye back. So appreciated.
Abused women do not get legal aid. Women who co habit have to put in a claim (1/3) within a year or lose everything. Abused women have to stay in an abusive situation because they do not get legal aid. It has to be paid back in any case. The Police, social work, healthcare contribute a higher amount because abused women do not have the means to walk away. With no financial or Police help. It can make it worse. Abuser women cannot get away because they do not receive legal aid and help. They can get help in England.
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