General Secretary Mick Whelan responds to the Scottish Government’s announcement that the British Transport Police in Scotland will be subsumed by Police Scotland, the force that covers north of the border. The decision follows the Smith Commission’s devolution of railway policing to Holyrood. Whelan is concerned that the specialist skills that the BTP possess will be lost. “Is this the first stage in the dissolution of what is currently a UK-wide body that all the stakeholders I have spoken to want to remain operating independently in the interests of the industry, the travelling public, and the taxpayer?” asks Whelan. - PP
We read it in: ASLEF journal, April 2015, page 3
