'Our communities have never felt more distant from their local police.'
Calls for local control over Glasgow police services have been rejected, as councillors instead backed moves for more local accountability and a better police complaints system.
Councillor Redmond said: “Our communities have never felt more distant from their local police and that is no surprise with a reduction of 1000 police officers in Scotland since 2013 and in Glasgow alone we have lost 200 local police officers. “They have reduced accountability and scrutiny making it harder for elected members like ourselves to hold local policing to account. Three or four [council] committee meetings a year is not enough.”
He added: “As chair of the Safe Glasgow Partnership I believe that the current scrutiny arrangements in Glasgow are robust, principled and built on solid foundations based on past learnings but any such processes should always be open to ongoing review.
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