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In the first 11 months of Police Scotland, our operational support division has provided an extra 42,250 days of policing in support of local divisions across the country.
Any time that is spent on filling in extra application forms is time that is not spent on the front line with those who need their help.Single-year funding can also lead to instability.
Unless there is a budget with some kind of localised base, how do you know that the extra money is extra, and that it is not just filling a gap that has arisen as a result of deployment elsewhere?