Books Quote by Ian Rankin

The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society…

— Rory Stewart

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my…

— Ian Rankin

You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I want to see traditional policing with a modern flavour. I am completely committed to local, visible policing, but we have to modernise. There…

— Cressida Dick

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

— Angus Deaton

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a…

— Nicola Sturgeon

I can't think of an experience I've had with police that I felt was based on race, which is one difference between England and…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and…

— Henry Rollins

I was only in Scotland for four months or something, but I look back at that, and it was a big learning curve for…

— James Maddison

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

— Mark Steyn

I believe in Scotland's place within the United Kingdom today as much as ever.

— Ruth Davidson

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

— Wyatt Cenac