Evidence was given by Chief Constable Stephen House and Director of Communications Rob Shorthouse on behalf of the former territorial police force responsible for the Scottish council areas of Argyll and Bute, City of Glasgow, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire between 1975 and 2013, when an Act of the Scottish Parliament (the Police and Fire Reform [Scotland] Act 2012) created a single police service, known as Police Scotland.
