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To ask the Scottish Government what its response to the claim by the Channel 4 News Fact Check that “it's hard to say how many police officers are actually 'on the beat' in Scotland today.”
No concerns have been raised about sections 21 or 25, which seek to simplify the governance of the crofting register and the register of crofts. That is good news. Section 26 seeks to expand the powers on the correction of errors to allow the keeper to fix clerical mistakes at any time.
Of the consequential amendments, only the amendments of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 and the Armed Forces Act 2006 to add the new offence to lists of offences in those Acts extend to Scotland; and
While these concern the new offence of encouraging or assisting the serious self...
(S6F-01389) Officer numbers fluctuate due to the cycle of recruitment and retirement. The latest statistics reflect the impact of Covid restrictions and the 26th United Nations climate change conference of the parties—COP26—which reduced the capacity to train new recruits at the Scottish police college.