Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy 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 … Continue reading Total crime down by third and violent crime down by a quarter since 2007 but still as many police officers after 19 years of SNP rule