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Crockart and McInnes criticise Scottish Police station closure plan

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 2nd October 2013 - 4:48 pm

In 2011, the SNP decided to merge Scotland’s 8 police forces into a single organisation. Truth be told, that’s not quite what they’d put in their manifesto, but with an overall majority they were in a position to do what they wanted.

Liberal Democrats were vociferous in warning about the dangers of how the merger would affect rural policing. We were told we were scare-mongering and it would all be fine.

Barely six months on from the merger, it’s been announced that 65 rural police stations might close or have their opening …

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Posted in News | Also tagged alison mcinnes, mike crockart and Scotland | 2 Comments

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