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I presume that Tayside police will have exceptional extra costs, but other police forces—Lothian and Borders police in particular, as there will be extra costs for security within and around the capital—will probably also have significant additional costs.
There is clearly a chasm there—there is clearly a misunderstanding on somebody's part—and who knows whether the extra cost that COSLA says will be incurred is accurate?
If special measures are introduced, they will be seen as an add-on, as an extra and as something odd that the jury will immediately be suspicious about.
It might take five years of repeatedly returning to the matter, adding on extra dimensions and involving the person in discussing why the situation is still continuing, as the drugs courts do.
For example, people hear, "We have put an extra £1.2 billion into the Executive," or, "We are spending £X billion on this," or, "Such-and-such a party is proposing cuts of £X billion."
This year, the process has been planned: those markers who are willing to take on an extra allocation of papers, within an overall total allocation that is acceptable to them, will do so with foreknowledge and voluntarily.
It would be useful if people had to acquire a dog licence that could be endorsable or could be removed in cases of animal cruelty. That could provide an extra layer of protection for the animals and it might offer opportunities for requiring people to gain more education and training to retain their licence.