SCOTTISH
POLICE FEDERATION
5 Woodside Place, Glasgow, G3 7QF
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The Scottish Police Federation represents all police officers in the
ranks of chief inspector and below, about 15,000 people, over 98% of
all police officers in Scotland.
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April 2008
Police
Attacks - Officer Down, Programme on BBC |
Norrie
Flowers , Chairman said
“First,
I'd like to thank Sam Polling and everyone at the BBC who worked on
this programme.
The
Federation has been trying for years to highlight this problem but it
sometimes takes a high quality, high profile TV programme to get the
message across.
The
levels of assaults are far too high.
The
number of cases which go through the court are far too few.
The
sentences passed, too often, don't act as a deterrent.
These
things need to be addressed.
Beyond
that we have to ensure that self protection training and equipment are
good quality and kept up to date. Over the years we have introduced
improved handcuffs, batons and CS spray. Beyond that we would
like to see wider deployment of tazers.
Our
principal aim is the protection of the public, but for us to be able
to do that we must be able to protect ourselves and the courts and other
authorities need to play their part.
For further information contact Lesley Stevenson at 5 Woodside
Place, Glasgow, G3 7QF
Telephone: 0141 332 0901 Mobile: 07967 104173 Fax: 0141 331 2436
Email: lesley.stevenson@spf.org.uk
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