Scottish police are preparing for the possibility of significant protests in the wake of this week’s independence referendum result, as tensions continue to run high on both sides of the debate over the country’s future. Brian Docherty, the chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, told The Independent that officers were continually monitoring the situation and would see what develops in the wake of Thursday’s vote, with Friday night considered a potential flashpoint. Police Scotland said it would respond appropriately to any issues which might arise after the result, which is expected to be announced early on Friday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOn Sunday, thousands of Yes campaigners descended on the BBC’s Scottish headquarters in Glasgow’s Pacific Quay in protest at what they perceive as a pro-Union bias by the corporation’s journalists, notably its political editor Nick Robinson.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOne of the protest’s leaders told The Independent that in the event of a No vote on Thursday: We will take to the streets. We will not be robbed of victory by a conspiracy which has the BBC at its centre. Mr Docherty said he was hopeful that events would continue to be peaceful but that forewarned is forearmed. As it sits just now, there is nothing which I’m led to believe is going to cause us any great issues, but you never say never in this game. It’s an ever-changing environment and the picture changes with the intelligence that we get in, he said. You may still get a very small element who try to make some kind of gain on their policies and theories, and maybe even try to bring in a bit of violence, but you’ve just got to hope that common sense prevails and people accept what [the result] is.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe added that if there was a large-scale protest, emergency procedures would kick in and the focus would be on getting officers to the right areas as quickly as possible. Demonstrations were most likely to develop on Friday afternoon, continuing overnight into Saturday, he said. If there is going to be any potential issues or problems kicking off, that’s when it’s going to be. We’re hopeful that by that time most of the intelligence picture will be available and we can deal with it accordingly, moving our people to where they have to be… <\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 16 septembre 2014 \u00e0 06H42<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La police craint des troubles apr\u00e8s le r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum \u00e9cossais La tension soudaine qu’a mise \u00e0 jour jusqu’\u00e0 son paroxysme la transformation brutale du r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum \u00e9cossais-devenu-crise (voir ce m\u00eame 16 septembre 2014) inqui\u00e8te les autorit\u00e9s polici\u00e8res \u00e9cossaises. Cette inqui\u00e9tude affecte non seulement la p\u00e9riode d’ici jeudi, jour du vote, mais surtout la p\u00e9riode imm\u00e9diate d’apr\u00e8s le… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3882,16042,3850,6266,1225,7939],"class_list":["post-75510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breves-de-crise","tag-bbc","tag-independantiste","tag-manifestations","tag-police","tag-referendum","tag-troubles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}