UNISON Scotland Police Staff - campaigning for a balanced police team

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Police staff - campaigning for a balanced police team

How to find your MSPs
You have one local constituency MSP and seven regional MSPs.

To find your MSPs from your postcode click here for MSP search on the Scottish Parliament site (opens in a new window)

Note the names of your local and regional MSPs, then use the drop down list on the email form on this page to select a name, fill in the form and click 'send'.

Please send one email each to all your own MSPs, local and regional.

Police staff in Scotland

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Email now to support our campaign for police staff jobs

Let your MSPs know you want them to support a balanced, modern police team - and that cutting thousands of police staff jobs is not the answer.

It couldn't be easier.

Check names of your MSPs (see How to find your MSPs - right)
Please remember - you have 7 regional MSPs, as well as a local MSP! They all represent you. Please use the form to send emails to as many of your own MSPs as you can.
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Your message: If you re-write this in your own words, you will make this action even more effective.	Dear MSP I am writing as a constituent to express my concern about the impact the above legislation will have on policing in Scotland. In particular I am concerned about the loss of 3,000 police staff jobs. Police staffs include properly qualified civilian personnel delivering a wide range of routine, complex and specialised functions that are central to modern day police forces, while allowing uniformed officers to concentrate on their operational policing duties. Taking trained operational police officers off the streets to perform administrative or specialist tasks, at greater cost, makes no economic or operational sense. This will return the police service in Scotland almost to the 1980s, with inefficient and outdated police practice. Savings targets and the 17,234 officer target means almost all cuts fall on police staffs that only make up 15% of the budget. 1,000 police staff posts have already been lost and ACPOS estimates indicate a further 2,000 will have to go. This increases to over 3,000 when VAT and other cuts are applied. As a consequence the proportion of police staff will fall from 28% to less than 15% - half the level in England. That takes policing in Scotland almost back to pre-civilianisation levels. I believe that the new Scottish Police Authority should be able to decide on a balanced staffing structure free of cosmetic political targets for police officer numbers that were set before the new single force was proposed. That is the proper best value approach. I would urge you to support that position in Parliament. Yours sincerely,
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UNISON Scotland will save a copy of your message, and will only use your email address to contact you in relation to this online action. We will not share your details with anyone else.
Please only send one email for yourself to each of the MSPs who represent you.
This is not a spam email. We wish to let elected representatives know of genuine concerns felt by police staff and the communities they serve.

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Page updated: 29 March 2012