Community policing will be at the core of the single force's thinking, the officer who will take charge of territorial policing has said.
Community policing will be at the core of the single force's thinking, the officer who will take charge of territorial policing has said.
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The Deputy Chief Constable of the new Police Service of Scotland, Rose Fitzpatrick, previously a deputy assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police, is touring the force areas outwith the central belt.
Last year an internal survey of Northern Constabulary, which covers the Highlands and Islands but not Argyll, found 86.6% of the respondents were against a single force which comes into being on April 1. However, speaking during her visit to the force's Inverness headquarters, Ms Fitzpatrick said the experience of policing in the more peripheral areas would help shape the new force.
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