Gbp 513m That's How Much Public Cash Goes to Strathclyde Police . . . So Why Is Force Failing to Deliver? That's How Much Public Cash Goes to Strathclyde Police . . . So Why Is Force Failing to Deliver? Cops Get Record Amount of Money - but Crime Is Rising While Detection Rates Have Fallen to Below 50-Per Cent

Evening Times › February 14, 2007

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STRATHCLYDE Police's ability to fight crime was called into question today following a damning set of statistics.

Yesterday the Evening Times revealed how Strathclyde's top cop warned jobs could be axed unless he got more money - at a time when the murder rate had soared by 50-per cent.

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Gbp 513m That's How Much Public Cash Goes to Strathclyde Police . . . So Why Is Force Failing to Deliver? That's How Much Public Cash Goes to Strathclyde Police . . . So Why Is Force Failing to Deliver? Cops Get Record Amount of Money - but Crime Is Rising While Detection Rates Have Fallen to Below 50-Per Cent

But today we can reveal that despite Chief Constable Sir Willie Rae pleading poverty, the reality is that a record GBP513million of taxpayers' money is being pumped into Scotland's biggest force.

And Scotti...

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