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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
The Scottish Government’s pledge to recruit an extra 1000 police officers will be met according to the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland.
Following media reports over the weekend claiming that less than the promised 1000 officers would be recruited, and that retirements and other departures had left some forces with less staff than this time last year, ACPOS today released a statement clarifying the situation and confirming that suitable financial resources had been allocated by Government.
Chief Constable Andrew Cameron, Chair of the ACPOS Personnel and Training Business Area:
“All eight Scottish Police Forces are working very actively to recruit the thousand police officers that are to be directly funded by the Scottish Government. They are also recruiting to replace officers who are expected to retire within the current financial year. It is impossible to be definitive in relation to the actual numbers of officers who will retire as they are only required to give one months notice of their intention to do so. That being said forces create pools of suitable replacements and, as such, endeavour to ensure that the number of officers serving at any time is in keeping with budgetary provision.
“Forces also have plans for recruitment up to 2011/2012 within the three year business planning cycle. All forces recruited their allocation of the 150 officers in 2007/2008 and had these officers 'on the books' at the year end. Any variations between overall numbers recruited in 2007/08 and forces' recruitment plans would be for logistical rather than financial reasons, and will be made up in the course of this financial year. Forces recruited 697 officers during 2007/2008 and are planning to recruit 1648 officers during the current financial year, which ends in March 2009.”
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