Police Scotland assigned hundreds of officers during the Battle of the Boyne walk on July 2.
Police had to devote more than 900 officers to patrol a single Orange Order parade in Glasgow earlier this year, it has emerged.It is understood the force also had to pay for the cost of policing the march.
Officers accompanied marchers playing instruments and carrying banners and flags through the city streets. The staff numbers used to police the march were presented during a quarterly Greater Glasgow report from chief superintendent Mark Sutherland at a Safe Glasgow Partnership meeting last week.The Police Scotland report said: “There were 34 processions during the period, including the annual Boyne parade, which required a deployment of over 900 officers of varying ranks and specialisms.
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