Since its formation, we have been taking more than a passing interest in the body known as Police Scotland. With good reason, we think.
The latest figures show that in the first nine months of its existence officers on the ground carried out a total of 537,434 searches of individuals on the street. Rounded up for a full year this would leave a figure of 716,578. With Scotland having a population of 5,295,000 at the last count, those statistics mean that in general terms the equivalent of some 14% of the population will have been subjected to stop-and search over the course of a year.
Those figures alone should be sufficient reason to give the leadership of Police Scotland their jotters en masse.
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