Catch criminals? Scotland’s hard-working cops are too busy escorting wind turbine parts! – Mail

Scotland’s overstretched police are escorting hundreds of huge wind farm parts every year – at a time when it has stopped investigating some crimes due to the pressures it faces.

Slow-moving lorries carrying turbine blades more than half the length of a football pitch have become a common sight in some Scottish towns and villages.

Now, new figures show the scale of the demands being heaped on specially trained officers called in to monitor the convoys.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15316723/Cops-busy-escorting-wind-turbine-convoys.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawOPrcxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe-0SVtCSj64LneA4Oy8F1AKEa3QGnidZSJ1gFhLf1BotYmViAxx6QjytxEv8_aem_nL45GewoLI_D9_nkOQWM3g