Alex Salmond has announced a new bill in the Scottish parliament to amalgamate the police services in Scotland into one super-force.
The effect this will have will be to siphon police resources away from rural areas into urban areas (where there is most crime). This raises serious questions about who the police will be accountable to. They certainly will not be accountable to local communities.
It makes you wonder what responsibility we have to ensure that ordinary people in the devolved administrations are not oppressed by sectional interests establishing a regional hegemony. We have a national policy in the United Kingdom of devolving powers down to the smallest decision-making communities. It would be ironic if this policy was to meet a "big-state" bottleneck in Edinburgh.
Presumably individuals in Scotland can appeal to the Supreme Court to review or overturn unjust laws.
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