The Government’s own Improvement Service said that“supporting evidence is caveated almost to the point of parody”and that“the analysis ... is an abuse of evidence”.David Strang, the chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police, said that the figures in the draft proposal were“irresponsibly misleading and not supported by the evidence”.As Mr Salmond knows, the chief constable in his area, Colin McKerracher, said there was not a “shred of evidence” to support a single police force.Is it normal for the First Minister’s Government to make an assertion first and to look for the evidence afterwards? What evidence can he produce...