Ratio of population to officers England and Wales: 459/1.  Ratio of population to officers Scotland: 307/1
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/04/30/bbc-scotland-news-and-print-journalism-on-scottish-policing-forces-in-crisis/

As knife and gun crime rockets across England and Wales and falls in Scotland, Scotland has far more police officers per head of population.

https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/05/02/as-knife-and-gun-crime-rockets-across-england-and-wales-and-falls-in-scotland-scotland-has-far-more-police-officers-per-head-of-population/amp/

In England and Wales, ‘high-harm’ violent offences involving weapons rose by 16%, in the year-ending March 2018. Homicides rose by 12% to 701 in the same period.  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/19/knife-crime-up-16-per-cent-england-and-wales

In the same period, in Scotland, ‘serious assaults’ fell by 1.4% and homicides fell by 12.7% to only 55.  https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/sexual-and-violent-crime-on-the-rise-in-scotland-1-4746192

https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/07/19/serious-violent-crime-soars-in-broken-tory-england-but-falls-in-snp-scotland/

From Police Scotland on 28th May 2018: ‘The Q4 figures show that the number of deaths on the roads has fallen by 15.1% (from 172 to 146) after education and enforcement work, including safety campaigns highlighting poor driver behaviour. The number of children killed on roads is down 82% from 11 to 2. Since 1995, there has been a 50% fall in road deaths, while traffic levels have increased by 23% over the same period.’
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/06/04/deaths-on-scottish-roads-fall-by-15-in-one-year-as-they-rise-across-the-non-scottish-parts-of-the-uk-paxman-scottish-tories-and-danny-alexander-still-wrong-about-snp-average-speed-cameras/