Scotland/Police
 Police Service of Scotland  (UK/Police, Police force)    | |
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| Abbreviation | PSS |
| Motto | Semper Vigilo (Always Vigilant) |
| Predecessor | 8 Scottish police forces |
| Headquarters | No. 6 Mar Place, Alloa, Clackmannanshire |
| Leader | Chief Constable |
| Staff | 23,000 |
| The primary police service of Scotland | |
The Police Service of Scotland or Police Scotland – is the police agency of Scotland. It was formed in 2013 with the merger of all eight territorial police forces in Scotland and the specialist services of the Scottish Police Services Authority, including the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. Although not formally absorbing it, the merger also resulted in the winding up of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland. [1]
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History
The Scottish Government confirmed on 8 September 2011 that a single police service would be created in Scotland.[2] Police Scotland officially came into being on 1 April 2013.
In June 2014 a leaked Police Scotland internal email to police managers in Dunfermline ordered a substantial increase in "stop and search" activities and warned any police officers not meeting the higher targets would be subjected to a performance development review. Police Scotland has previously denied setting stop and search performance targets for individual officers.[3] The next month, it was revealed that between April and December 2013, Police Scotland's officers stopped and searched members of the Scottish public at a rate of 979.6 per 10,000 people, a rate was three times higher than that of the Metropolitan Police Service and nine times higher than that of the New York Police Department. It was also revealed that the Scottish Police Authority, the body tasked with overseeing Police Scotland, had removed criticism of Police Scotland's use of "stop and search" powers from a report it had commissioned. Also removed from the report were calls for a review of stop and search on children and for clarification of the policy's primary aim.[4]
Covid
Scottish police was part of Operation Talla, a coordinated operation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, to enforce "pandemic measures" such as lockdowns and masking despite their illegality. On January 25, 2022, Scotland’s Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) Alan Speirs issued a statement about those working in settings related to the covid-19 vaccine, instructing officers to reject potential criminal complaints relating to covid measures and "vaccinations".[5]
In tandem with Tall, Scottish police ran Operation Norden, which involved intelligence-gathering and tracking individuals and groups expressing dissent. It worked in tandem with the Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU), framed as "preventing radicalisation" or "health extremism"" .[6][5]
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| Document:New documents blame Libya for Lockerbie bombing | Article | 18 March 2025 | David Cowan | Desperate attempt by the West to blame Libya for the targeting of UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 |
| Document:Police Violence | Article | 1 October 2021 | Mike Small | The radical overhaul of how we view policing and law and order shouldn’t be contained within the prism of the appalling problem of male violence – but seen in the context of state violence, the repression of dissent and the growth of the surveillance state. |
References
- ↑ "Iain Livingstone named as Scotland's new chief constable"
- ↑ http://wayback.archive-it.org/3011/20130202143701/http://scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/09/08142643
- ↑ "Police chiefs warn officers: step up stop and search" Herald Scotland, 29 June 2014 http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/crime-courts/police-chiefs-warn-officers-step-up-stop-and-search.24620750
- ↑ "Police Scotland frisk nine times as many people as the NYPD" http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/police-scotland-frisk-nine-times-as-many-people-as-the-nypd.24811529
- ↑ a b https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-police-crushed-dissent-over-covid-vaccine-damage/
- ↑ https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Ministry-of-Truth-Big-Brother-Watch-290123.pdf
