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Legislation and bureaucracy should be flexible enough to meet the needs of the people whom they affect. As MSPs, we can all help to ensure that constituents are treated justly and with dignity as we represent their interests.
I start by putting on record how pleased I am to have contributed to this small but perfectly formed bill. I join other MSPs in congratulating the bill's sponsor, Jackie Baillie.
If a serious incident happens, an officer must arrive at it quickly and efficiently.As MSPs, we repeatedly hear from our constituents that policing needs to be both community based and responsive in order to meet our needs.
I find that figure surprisingly low, given that I have received such complaints regularly in my three years as an MSP and my 18 years as a councillor in Glasgow.
Perhaps unusually, the Ochil constituency has had different MSPs in each of the three sessions. It is also unusual that the first, Dr Richard Simpson, re-entered Parliament as a list MSP at the most recent election.
Like many of my colleagues and fellow MSPs, I became involved in politics—as I have said in previous debates on education—to try to make a difference in our community.