I believe local knowledge is invaluable especially in an emergency situation.
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Francis Murray McGregor
10 years ago
Please keep, our local call centres open this is a backward step to be taking. Local knowledge is a very important tool in the prevention of crime and attending urgent incidents quickly.
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jack mearns
10 years ago
In an area where our police cover the oil industry, members of the Royal Family and so many outlying areas it is imperative that the call centre in Aberdeen is kept. How could people manning a call centre in Dundee know where to send officers in an emergency when they have no geographic knowledge of our area
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Alan Brown
10 years ago
Emergency call answered in Bilston Glen, then passed to Dundee for resourcing in Aberdeen or Aberdeenshire...having seen the unfortunate outcome of the RTC at Stirling last year, how is this going to improve service in the North and North East? Local knowledge is essential in Policing our communities and giving the most appropriate guidance to officers on the street. Some things should not be played with in the interest of political point scoring!
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jack mearns
10 years ago
We have to keep our local centres up and running
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John M Sellar
10 years ago
If Police Scotland truly wishes to maintain a close relationship with local communities, there is no better way to do so than having call centre personnel, at regional levels, benefit from in-depth knowledge of those policing areas; their geography, their residents and their particular crime-related issues. A national Police service is logical and appropriate but that does not have to involve centralization of everything.
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Elizabeth Napier
10 years ago
Local knowledge is paramount in emergencies
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Harry Milne
10 years ago
The export of the many years of expertise available locally to the 'Central Belt' will have a devastating effect for years to come.
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Colin McKerracher
10 years ago
Grampian police had the most efficient call centre in Scotland. It should be the model for the whole of the Police Scotland force area.
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Brian Welch
10 years ago
We need to retain our local call centre
Local knowledge is important to the North East community
Brian Welch
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George Anderson
10 years ago
Only reason for closure seems to be to save money - stuff any public service
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john Duncan
10 years ago
Having worked in the control room I know the value of having local knowledge plays in getting that help to the public quickly. another example of the central belt and this SNP governments of centralising everything down south.
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Kenny Mackie
10 years ago
Save North @ Aberdeen call centres
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Geoff Marston
10 years ago
A mass of experience and local police knowledge has already been cut to the bone, through uniform loss and staff reduction. If you take away the north and north eastern Call Centres, it will totally tip the service into the abyss!
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Ian Wisely
10 years ago
everything being centralised in the central belt and the north being ignored by this government.
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Joyce Wisely
10 years ago
Too much is being centralised in the central belt. We pay our taxes so we deserve equal local services and protection from distant emergency failures.
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Dorothy Conlon
10 years ago
As an ex Fire Controller I know how important local knowledge and understanding can be in an emergency.
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Shirley Burnett
10 years ago
Local knowledge can mean the difference between life and death. Moving these call centres away from the areas they serve is callous and yet again takes jobs to the SNP central belt heartland at the expense of the North East.
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Alexander Burnett
10 years ago
Closing NE Call centres ignores the findings of the M9 enquiry, takes much needed NE jobs and loses vital local knowledge in dealing with calls. Again central belt bias damaging NE.
Local knowledge always invaluable
I believe local knowledge is invaluable especially in an emergency situation.
Please keep, our local call centres open this is a backward step to be taking. Local knowledge is a very important tool in the prevention of crime and attending urgent incidents quickly.
In an area where our police cover the oil industry, members of the Royal Family and so many outlying areas it is imperative that the call centre in Aberdeen is kept. How could people manning a call centre in Dundee know where to send officers in an emergency when they have no geographic knowledge of our area
Emergency call answered in Bilston Glen, then passed to Dundee for resourcing in Aberdeen or Aberdeenshire...having seen the unfortunate outcome of the RTC at Stirling last year, how is this going to improve service in the North and North East? Local knowledge is essential in Policing our communities and giving the most appropriate guidance to officers on the street. Some things should not be played with in the interest of political point scoring!
We have to keep our local centres up and running
If Police Scotland truly wishes to maintain a close relationship with local communities, there is no better way to do so than having call centre personnel, at regional levels, benefit from in-depth knowledge of those policing areas; their geography, their residents and their particular crime-related issues. A national Police service is logical and appropriate but that does not have to involve centralization of everything.
Local knowledge is paramount in emergencies
The export of the many years of expertise available locally to the 'Central Belt' will have a devastating effect for years to come.
Grampian police had the most efficient call centre in Scotland. It should be the model for the whole of the Police Scotland force area.
We need to retain our local call centre Local knowledge is important to the North East community Brian Welch
Only reason for closure seems to be to save money - stuff any public service
Having worked in the control room I know the value of having local knowledge plays in getting that help to the public quickly. another example of the central belt and this SNP governments of centralising everything down south.
Save North @ Aberdeen call centres
A mass of experience and local police knowledge has already been cut to the bone, through uniform loss and staff reduction. If you take away the north and north eastern Call Centres, it will totally tip the service into the abyss!
everything being centralised in the central belt and the north being ignored by this government.
Too much is being centralised in the central belt. We pay our taxes so we deserve equal local services and protection from distant emergency failures.
As an ex Fire Controller I know how important local knowledge and understanding can be in an emergency.
Local knowledge can mean the difference between life and death. Moving these call centres away from the areas they serve is callous and yet again takes jobs to the SNP central belt heartland at the expense of the North East.
Closing NE Call centres ignores the findings of the M9 enquiry, takes much needed NE jobs and loses vital local knowledge in dealing with calls. Again central belt bias damaging NE.