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Those additional officers are not appearing in the communities where members of the public live. The Executive has visited many new bureaucratic obligations on our police officers, which keep them in offices and not in our communities.
If the Scottish Executive had to pay in the normal way for the services that those sectors provide, the latest estimate is that the equivalent sum would be in excess of £6 billion.