Marching Season Costs Under Fire

Scotland on Sunday (August 09, 2009)

Author: David Leask

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THE amount of time police officers spend manning traditional sectarian parades has leapt nearly 50 per cent, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

Just under 35,000 hours of police work went into covering the almost 1,000 parades, marches and processions that have taken place in the west of Scotland alone in 2008-9, according to senior sources at Strathclyde Police. That is up from 24,000 hours in 2007-8.

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Marching Season Costs Under Fire

Chief officers are understood to be frustrated over the cost - in time and money - of policing the m...

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