Arresting news

The public spending watchdog has warned that there are “considerable challenges” ahead for Scottish policing amid continuing financial concerns.

£4.3m was spent in 2017/18 on consultancy fees – what on?

Chocablock £300 million to improve an ageing IT system. The SNP cannot keep on throwing good money after bad on failed IT systems. The £300 million will be a lot more by the time any new IT system is up and running.

Kiatak

Big difference from Sturgeon’s Accenture fiasco: “We need a new breed of police officers”, so the brochure (funny it’s disappeared off the net) said. Police Scotland is a running example of how not to fix things that weren’t broken. Instead of officers on the streets we see them sitting “preying” on motorists, easy crimes to detect and solve in their high-performance “chase cars”. How much are their average earnings with all the overtime? Was said to be £90,000 a year.

Sweeny Bean

The politicisation of police Scotland is, I would suggest, the biggest concern for members of the public.

Wilburforce

Police Scotland is no longer fit for purpose, the handcuffs are now on the wrists of the ordinary coppers.

Ken Best

We all know it is a failed exercise but let’s just keep pretending everything in the garden is rosy! What debt, I see no debt! SNP break all they touch, but remember... it is never their fault!

I know you know

Political control of the police is now a fact for Police Scotland. The only place where this works is North Korea.

634TDJ If only it were “financial concerns”. Police Snpcotland has lost the respect of the public; earlier in the week we heard that they had been told not to divulge crime figures at an open public meeting and duly complied. How desperately sad!

Troo Bloo