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The former general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, said that around 3,800 cases had been logged since the controversial new legislation came into force.

Since the controversial legislation was rolled out on Monday almost 4,000 complaints have been made to Police Scotland.

The Scottish Conservatives said that if complaints continue to be made at the same speed over the next 12 months officers 1.38 million crimes could be reported.

Siobhian Brown (pictured) says misinformation and hysteria have led to wrongful assumptions about the legislation despite someone making a false complaint to police under her name.

The new law creates a crime of "stirring up hatred" over several protected characteristics.

Police Scotland says it will not be taking further action against the writer for a thread of tweets she penned on April 1 on a number of trans women she referred to as men, every last one of them.

The First Minister said a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to hatred is required.

The graffiti, which has since been removed, happened on the day the Scottish governments controversial new hate crime laws came into force.

The author hit out at the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act that came into effect on Monday.

The SNP leader condemned racist slurs relating to his Pakistani heritage that were sprayed on the walls and fences of homes in Hamilton Steet, Broughty Ferry.