Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Looking at the above two graphs, you’ll see that the SNP Government arrived in the middle of a spike in crime in 2007 and maintained a high level of police staffing to drive it down, only reducing the staffing from 2020, by which time crime had plummeted by almost half and stabilised there. Nevertheless, as you’ll see below police officer numbers are as high today as they were before the increase. From the Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly … Continue reading SNP Scotland still has more police officers than Labour had before the surge in crime from the 1990s to 2007 and then still maintained a far higher level until after rates fell