Professor John Robertson OBA From Liberty Investigates today: Police forces are trialling AI technology that enables them to identify and track “suspicious” journeys by drivers on Britain’s road network. They are using an app which analyses data collected by automated number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras, using artificial intelligence to identify vehicles that may be linked to “county lines” activity, whereby criminal gangs move drugs across the road network. Police have until now used the UK’s network of more than 12,000 fixed and nearly 1,900 mobile ANPR cameras to generate alerts when a “vehicle of interest” passes a particular location or … Continue reading If ever Police Scotland needed a new AI system this is it

Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Nottinghamshire today, the above and: The care given to a 45-year-old man with disabilities who died from sepsis after not being given the correct medication for 34 hours has been described as a “shambles” by his mother. The father of two – named only as Graham – was taken into Bassetlaw Hospital in Nottinghamshire with an infection in November 2022. An investigation by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) noted doctors did not follow advice from the mother, care home staff or paramedics to give him intravenous (IV) antibiotics rather than oral as it … Continue reading How one Nottinghamshire man might have survived an ‘avoidable’ deadly sepsis infection had he been cared for in one of Scotland’s post-Sturgeon cleaner hospitals

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. BBC Breakfast had extended and intensive coverage on the dentistry crisis in England, with the above images of queues around the block to even get on a dentist’s waiting list, and a minister admitting that folk are using pliers on themselves, 18 months after his government came to power. BBC Scotland is not covering this topic. Here’s why: Shocking contrast as nearly twice as many Scots have access to an NHS dentist as those in England Professor John Robertson OBA The above table from Public Health Scotland today, reveals a very high level of access to … Continue reading As BBC Scotland drool over a dentist shortage in Stranraer, they won’t report the shocking wider contrast as nearly twice as many Scots have access to an NHS dentist as those in England

Professor John Robertson OBA STV News, almost exactly 24 hours earlier, as I write: Scots homes ‘likely to be flooded’ as amber weather warning for ‘very heavy rain’ issued – The alert comes into effect from midnight on Sunday and remains in place until 11.59pm. The same hopeful claims were everywhere in Scotland’s media with the same optimism, on their part, we see when such NHS waiting times or drug deaths figures are anticipated. As of now (Sunday 14th December, 12:20), there are no confirmed reports of homes flooded in Scotland in the last 24 hours. There had been 6 … Continue reading Not even one one report of a flooded home – I wonder why? Surely not Scottish Government investment in flood defences?

Professor John Robertson OBA Yesterday’s tragic killings at Brown University in the USA are only the latest in a sequence of 43 such incidents. Ironically, in July this year Police Scotland answered a Freedom of Information request from the US Department of Education on crime data for Scotland’s Higher education campuses, in a surprisingly unhelpful way: I refer to your recent request for crime data, made in accordance with the Clery Act. Unfortunately, Police Scotland is unable to assist with your request. Having reviewed the ‘Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting’ from the US Department of Education, it is … Continue reading Campus shootings – how Scotland’s campuses, safest in the UK, could not be reported to US Department of Education yet in every English university town you are significantly more likely to be a victim of violent crime than in any Scottish one.