Concerns have been raised over the shrinking numbers of Ayrshire police – after new statistics showed the regional division lost more than 10 per cent of its available officers in one year.
The stats come from Police Scotland’s quarterly report and reveal a drop of 458 cops covering Ayrshire between June 2021 and June 2022.
That’s a decrease from 4,384 to 3,926 and represents a reduction of 10.5 per cent.MSPs have accused the Scottish Government of treating police officers “with contempt” by ‘failing to honour’ spending commitments they promised for the policing budget.
South Scotland Conservative MSP Sharon Dowey, said: “It is local policing divisions such as Ayrshire that are shamefully bearing the brunt of the SNP’s brutal underfunding of our police force.
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