A young girl has died after being found unresponsive at a property in a Scots town.
28.06.2023 - 17:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Police working on an island where six-year-old Alesha MacPhail was murdered are 'afraid to go out on duty' after overnight cover was slashed.
The Isle of Bute hit headlines globally in July 2018 when little Alesha was abducted from her bed in her grandparents' home, before being raped and murdered. Killer Aaron Campbell, then aged 16, had been buying cannabis from Alesha's dad, a trial at the High Court in Glasgow was told, and is now serving a life sentence.
Police flooded the island from the mainland, but some were hampered by vandalism at a ferry port in Wemyss Bay, Inverclyde. A new initiative was brought in recently which means Police Scotland has officers on call from midnight until 8am during the week, rather than on shift, and from 2am until 8am at weekends.
The Bute model is already in operation on Mull, which critics say has a smaller population and different demographic. But islanders claim cops have admitted to being "afraid to go on duty".
Emergency calls are directed to staff at a Glasgow call centre who then alert local officers to respond. Police Scotland say the revised model, which has reduced the number of shifts from five to three, will increase the number of officers at "key times" and say it is being tested against high demand, when visitor numbers to the island are highest.
Chief Inspector Sam Glasgow said the previous system created "unacceptable risks" for police and is better suited to urban areas where police numbers are bigger. But islanders slammed a public meeting earlier in June for failing to ease concerns.
Islander Jann Hurwood said: "They could not give any of the statistics on which they based their decision - they didn't have these details with them. They could not answer how much extra
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