Today, two police chiefs publicly accuse Christie Smith, of the policing directorate within the Scottish Government, and Kenneth Hogg, another civil servant, of driving their own agenda by ignoring looming budget deficits.
- Text size
Police anger at cuts 'agenda'
Scotland’s chief constables have revealed they were urged by senior Holyrood civil servants not to reduce police numbers until this autumn, when a decrease could be blamed on Westminster spending cuts.
