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From Police officer quarterly strength statistics: 31 December 2025, published yesterday:
There were 16,416 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers in Scotland on 31 December 2025
This is an increase of 182 FTE police officers (+1.1%) from the 16,234 FTE police officers recorded at 31 March 2007
https://www.gov.scot/publications/police-officer-quarterly-strength-statistics-31-december-2025/
How important has it been to maintain police officer staffing at or just above that in 2007 when Labour was last in power in Scotland?
See the graph above, non-sexual crimes of violence down by nearly a quarter yet just as many police officers.
Total crimes in 2007/2008? 385 500.
https://statistics.gov.scot/data/recorded-crime
Total crimes in 2024/2025? 299 111
https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2024-25/documents/
Total crimes down by nearly a third yes just as many police officers.
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