The transformation of our police, represents a monster in waiting, A perspective from the UK.

Military hardware not only makes civilian cops look like soldiers; it makes them more likely to act like soldiers, too.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/british-policing-dangerous-monster-waiting
The 'austerity' banner is assisted by an increasingly poisonous environment within the police itself. An already hard and sometimes dangerous job has become even more pressured, target driven and laden with paper.

So a troika of Nicola Sturgeon, Matheson and House, now control the law and policing in Scotland. They are above the law, control the law and are the law. Aside from armed police that the public do not want, we should also remember that Police Scotland have recently refused to give evidence when a man died in custody. East Germany or the new Scottish model of government?