Doing a few end-of-day sums, based on the former Police forces.
Strathclyde, 115 stations down to 90, or a 22% drop, from 0.52 stations per 10,000 residents to 0.4. Officer levels 36.4 per 10,000 residents.
Lothian & Borders, 51 stations down to 36.4, or a 29% drop, from 0.54 stations per 10,000 residents to 0.38. Officer levels 30.6 per 10,000 residents.
Fife, 16 stations down to 10, or a 27% drop from 0.6 stations per 10,000 residents to 0.44. Officer levels 28.1 per 10,000 residents.
So the reductions are larger as a proportion of all stations in Fife and Lothian & Borders and change Strathclyde to having a slightly higher ratio of stations per unit population from slightly lower.
I think it's fair to compare the two areas as both include large cities, large urban areas and large rural hinterlands. Although Strathclyde includes some more remote parts of the west coast where population and policing densities probably fairly low.
Historically Strathclyde may have had more "bobbies on the beat" because they just had more bobbies per capita to put on the beat.