Lies, damn lies and Labour’s statistics

The Herald reports:

As the Government celebrates its milestone of putting “1800 new police officers on the beat”, it can be revealed 270 of them don’t have arrest powers and work predominantly within stations.

Police Association president Chris Cahill and National police spokesman Mark Mitchell allege the Government has been misleading.

“They’re not what the public would call a police officer,” Cahill said.

So Labour has redefined what a police officer is, so they can claim they met a target they haven’t actually met.

They promised 1,800 extra officers by the end of 2020 and its mid 2023 and they are not even at 1,600.