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Police demand crackdown as attacks on cops increase while prosecutions for attacking officers drops

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police assaults after a big rise in attacks – but a drop in those being prosecuted.The Scottish Police Federation said recorded assaults on officers rose by almost 88 per cent, from 898 to 1685, in the last three years.But at the same time, the Crown Office proceeded with 31 per cent fewer police assault cases.Following an increase in the number of assaults on police officers since lockdown restrictions were eased, and especially since pubs reopened, the federation is demanding that police assault charges should never be dropped.SPF chairman David Hamilton said: “It has been a long-running concern to the federation that it has seemed to our members that the Crown will often agree to drop charges of resisting arrest and assaulting police.

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