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The changing ecology and equity of policing
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ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the developments by focusing on the reconfiguration of the organizational structures of policing in Scotland in the period following the establishment of the national police force in 2013. The creation of a national police force in Scotland focuses attention on tensions between the drive to consolidate specialist investigative resources at national and regional levels in support of intelligence-led policing and what this means locally, in terms of both access to those resources and the ability to continue to deliver a more community-oriented approach. The chapter sets out the context and contours of police reform in Scotland and early conflicts associated with it, highlighting some of the organizational challenges of integrating what were eight separate regional police forces. It presents an overview of the reconfiguration of specialist investigative resources within the national organization. There were ways in which intelligence-led values were being institutionalized by the changing ecology of specialist and investigative resources in the newly integrated national force.