More police officers to tackle 143 675 fewer crimes than under Labour

Sources: Scottish Government Recorded Crime bulletins and Statista compilation of official data.

From Police officer quarterly strength statistics: 30 September 2026, published today:

  • There were 16,553 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers in Scotland on 30 September 2026
  • This is an increase of 152 FTE police officers (+0.9%) in the last quarter from 30 June 2026
  • This is an increase of 113 FTE police officers (+0.7%) in the last year from 30 September 2025
  • This is an increase of 319 FTE police officers (+2.0%) from the 16,234 FTE police officers recorded at 31 March 2007

Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/police-officer-quarterly-strength-statistics-30–september-2026/

So, overall crime in Scotland is 32% down, almost one third, down on 2007 when the SNP first came to power and yet there are more police officers now than there were then.

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