martin ross

look guys the fact is that so far it seems to be working well. the only people that have lost their jobs apparantly are senior officers. their jobs are now covered by officers of a lesser rank. i.e a station manager is now covering two stations instead of one.

you may also like to know that scotland has had a national ambulance service for many many years.

the Scottish fire and rescue service covers the whole of scotland. it has a mixture of wholetime, wholetime/retained, retained andnd volunteer stations.

there is not any noticable change to frontline services. its mainly been support and senior management thats been affected. i.e less workshops and one chief fire officer instead of eight. as for the police. what they have done is taken away the eight independent forces and replaced them with thirty two divisions.