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The inquiry turns ifs focus to Police Scotland and its technique through the pandemic.
A Four E coverage launched early on was supposed as an easy-to-remember information, protecting:
- Engagement
- Explanation
- Encouragement
- Enforcement
Rory Phillips KC, for the National Police Chief’s Council, tells the inquiry the police by no means wavered from policing by consent.
Enforcement remained a final resort and information suggests the steering was efficient and profitable, says Philips.
“The vast majority of encounters were resolved before the fourth E, enforcement, was reached.”
He says not less than 88% of encounters were resolved brief of enforcement.
The KC provides the present first minister, Humza Yousaf, says the determine could be as excessive as 94%.
