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The submission from the British Transport Police Superintendents’ Association Branch (BTPSA) argued that being part of a geographic force would result in police officers being abstracted to other duties for much longer periods:
"It is also difficult not to expect Police Scotland duty officers in control rooms and on divisions faced with trying to resource numerous calls not to allocate / task the closest units, which may...