{"id":231,"date":"2013-10-02T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2013-10-02T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:50:22","slug":"police-station-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Police station closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/police.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" alt=\"Scottish Police\" src=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/police.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/police.jpg 304w, http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/police-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/police-195x110.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a>The Police service of Scotland have proposed closures of police stations throughout Scotland. This is a police decision dealing with police resources.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\">A Scottish Government spokesman said: &#8220;Operational decisions around the management of resources is a matter for the Chief Constable of Police Scotland.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And still the thick, predictable and sadly ill-informed #bittertogether lot would have us believe this is somehow a SNP decision that has been cunningly and secretively foisted upon an unwary society.<\/p>\n<p>That is simply not the case. During the time I spent working for SPSA throughout Lothian &amp; Borders, it was absolutely apparent that a great number of police stations were unmanned and under-used. It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to work out that that situation was unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t a section of Scottish society that isn&#8217;t feeling the strain of decades of Westminster misrule. Those who bleat &#8220;Vote No!&#8221; would do well to open their eyes and their minds &#8211; spending their time thinking about the huge opportunity facing we Scots rather than shoring up the decaying institutions that have forced these times upon us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police service of Scotland have proposed closures of police stations throughout Scotland. This is a police decision dealing with police resources. A Scottish Government spokesman said: &#8220;Operational decisions around the management of resources is a matter for the Chief Constable of Police Scotland.&#8221; And still the thick, predictable and sadly ill-informed #bittertogether lot would&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/?p=231\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}