Alison Hay Scottish Liberal Democrat Candidate for Argyll & Bute joined Alan Reid MP, in Dunoon today, to launch the party’s “save local policing” campaign.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats are the only main party in this election campaigning against a single, centralised police force for Scotland.

The campaign car paid a visit to Dunoon today as part of the national tour.

Commenting after the visit of the car Alison Hay said:

“There are 8 days to save local policing and stop police jobs being cut.

“Scotland’s top police officers warn that 3,000 officers would be lost with a single police force. So SNP, Labour and Tory policies on police numbers and crime are bogus and misleading. Anything these parties say on police numbers should be treated with caution.

“I don’t want police officers paying for an expensive re-organisation with their jobs. That doesn’t make Scotland safer.

“The Scottish Liberal Democrats are the only main party campaigning against a single police force. I want to see decisions about community policing in Dunoon taken by Strathclyde Police, not a centralised single police force. A National police force where the National Police Chief would take his orders directly from the First Minister.

“I want to keep policing local and so do hard working police officers across Scotland.”