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9 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Police Scotland mental health sick days soar to 66k. @DvdHmltn: "Officers are burning out by being asked to do too much, too often. They are being asked to do things, see things and hear things that no person should have to and with no time to process it" thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-…
Police Scotland days off due to psychological disorders - incl stress, PTSD - stepped up from 38,588 in 2017-18, to 44,398 in 2018-19, then to 65,998 in 2019-20.
Scottish Tory leader @Douglas4Moray: "The number of days off have gone through the roof because the SNP Government are not giving officers the resources to do their job. My wife is a police sergeant and I know first-hand how demanding, both mentally and physically,the job can be"
Justice Sec @HumzaYousaf's spokesman: "Scotland has significantly more officers than at any time before 2007 while over the same period numbers in England & Wales were cut significantly. Despite UK Gov cuts to the Scottish Budget, Scot Gov has increased the policing budget"

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10 Nov
EXCL: Scotland's test and trace system - Test & Protect - is performing much worse than official data had claimed.

Public Health Scotland botched its reporting, meaning official data the public has been fed for weeks was far rosier than the reality. 

thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-… Image
Corrected Public Health Scotland data shows that in 5 of 8 weeks in Sep & Oct, Test & Protect failed to interview approx half of positive "index" cases within 24 hours of being notified (see bold below in my summary).

Public health experts say speed is of the essence. Image
Here are some of the Test & Protect figures that have been corrected. These are the 3 key measures related to T&P taking **less than 24 hours** to:
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b) interview +ve person after T&P notified of result
c) complete contact tracing Image
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10 Nov
Today is the first *weekly* review of Scotland's Covid tiers. Every week now, 32 councils will be told on a Tuesday what level they'll be in on Fri. Today, we know Glasgow and N/S Lanarkshire at least are being considered for Level 4 lockdowns. SNP cabinet meeting now to decide
Nicola Sturgeon yesterday made clear Glasgow/Lanarkshire could move to Level 4. She said there had been a "levelling off of the quite marked increase in cases" several weeks ago, but said: “That levelling off is not a decline.And it is a levelling off at still quite a high level"
Nicola Sturgeon: "...So we have to judge for Glasgow, for Lanarkshire, for other areas: Does keeping the current restrictions, and it may well be that this is the case, allow us to continue to, to move that to a declining position, or do we need to think about something more?"
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27 Oct
At Holyrood inquiry into Scot Gov's Alex Salmond probe, Judith MacKinnon - the HR boss whose involvement led to the the probe being declared unlawful due to her prior contact with complainers - says: “I did not have any doubts about taking on the role of investigating officer”
Judith MacKinnon is deliberately avoiding naming a Scottish Government employment lawyer she spoke to regularly during the unlawful inquiry. She suggests she is reluctant as he is not a senior civil servant. Labour MSP Jackie Baillie says the committee will find out eventually
Some shade from Labour's Jackie Baillie during Qs to Scot Gov official Judith MacKinnon re what was known/when re Salmond probe "I appreciate it's a long time ago and you are not alone in having a failing memory". Could she be referring to this?! thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-…
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11 Oct
EXCL: MP Margaret Ferrier claims SNP chiefs wrote her script apologising for flouting Covid rules then “hung me out to dry" by removing whip - after they saw public reaction. She says SNP bosses wrote that she'd referred herself to police before she had
thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-…
Ferrier: "Someone told me to phone the police and said the statement would say I had already done so."
Ferrier said at 6.52pm - 1hr after her statement - she was told whip was being removed "but I would get back in because I was cooperating"

“Why suddenly have we got to the point where they have to take the whip from me? It was because the statement went out and it escalated."
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10 Oct
EXCL: Scotland's Test and Protect system at 'breaking point' in parts of country after failing performance coinciding with spike in cases thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-…
Figures from weekly official reports show proportion of infected people interviewed within 24hrs of Test and Protect being notified has fallen by 11 percentage points over past 6 weeks, to 77.6 per cent.
% of cases taking over 3 days to complete has risen 8pts to 18.3%
Here's the data - taken from weekly Public Health Scotland reports - suggesting a decline in performance in Test and Protect in recent weeks. As well as this, multiple sources have told us the system is struggling in *parts* of Scotland - eg, Glasgow, Edinburgh
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9 Oct
BREAKING: Scottish Police Federation say senior Police Scotland health and safety personnel have described the "Protect Scotland" Covid proximity app as “haphazard”, “unreliable” and “inaccurate” Image
According to the Scottish Police Federation, Police Scotland have recommended that all officers be instructed NOT to use the app. The Fed disagrees and criticises the force's "casual disregard for the health and safety of its officers"
Scottish Police Fed saying a recommendation has been tabled by Police Scotland for an outright ban on officers using Protect Scotland, citing accuracy issues. But Fed say they think this is to do with manpower and the force not wanting to deal with officers being taken off duty
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