Health Secretary urges colleagues to attend police safety briefings
Humza Yousaf says he has been given 40 recommendations to improve personal security following latest threat
The Health Secretary is calling on colleagues to accept an invite from Police Scotland’s Chief Constable to a series of virtual safety briefings.
Iain Livingstone has written to all of Scotland’s MPs, MSPs and councillors following the death of Sir David Amess.
The Tory MP was stabbed multiple times at a constituency surgery in Essex on Friday.
Humza Yousaf says the incident rocked him to his core:
“Just two weeks before his murder, Police Scotland were round my house and in my constituency office doing a security survey because of threats I had received.”
The Glasgow Pollock MSP has welcomed the invite from the Chief Constable and says it is something everyone should accept:
“I have been left with 30 or 40 recommendations of how to improve security, both in terms of my constituency office and also my own home. I would ask and encourage my colleagues, even if you haven’t had threats in the way I have, please still take up that offer.”
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