Council chiefs are maintaining pressure on Scottish Government ministers to scrap the proposed switch of the police control room in Inverness to Dundee.
They emerged from talks with senior police officers on Friday with an element of “reassurance” about the future of operations, but with no indication the Highland facility would be retained.
A motion from members to this week’s full council meeting in Inverness urges the Scottish Government and the Scottish Police Authority to “clarify the previous commitment to retain all the current jobs in the Inverness police control room, given the uncertainty caused by recent SPA (agenda) papers.”
It also urges ministers to reconsider the closure proposal to be decided by the SPA in August.
The motion is signed by council leader Margaret Davidson and administration colleagues Matthew Reiss and Hugh Morrison.
Councillor Reiss is a former long-serving Caithness, Sutherland and East Ross area police commander. He is seriously concerned about local geographical knowledge being lost if the control room is transferred further south.
Highlands and Islands MSP John Finnie, another former policeman, has registered the same concerns in the Scottish Parliament, in his role as Green Party justice spokesman.
The force insists call handling changes already made have resulted in “a significantly improved service.”
