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Police Scotland “can’t cope” with a deluge of hate crime reports made under the SNP’s new law, frontline officers have claimed.

“Embarrassed.” That’s the word that keeps coming up. After a turbulent inaugural week for Scotland’s hate crime legislation there are certainly louder, more emotional adjectives flying around, but in the messages that have been passing between serving and former police officers across Scotland, the common theme is one of simple embarrassment. In the past few days, whenever Calum Steele, the former general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, has heard from a c...

Investigating every complaint threatens to ‘overwhelm’ the force as Police Scotland receives about 8,000 reports in the first week of the Hate Crime Act

Front-line officers warn that they cannot cope with surge after 8,000 reports in first week after new law

The Scottish hate crime law will force police to make cuts, senior officers have warned as staff work overtime to deal with the volume of complaints.

Scottish police have warned that the controversial new hate speech law will force police to cut backs on the policing of actual crimes.

Police have been swamped with almost 8,000 complaints following the introduction of Humza Yousafs shambolic hate crime law, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Scottish police have warned that the controversial new hate speech law will force police to cut backs on the policing of actual crimes.

Control room officers are battling to keep on top of the backlog created by the new ;law introduced by Humza Yousafs (pictured) party - equivalent to one grievance every minute.

You might have assumed that the police are duty-bound to investigate crime. But youd be wrong: in Scotland in 2024 were moving into a new era of policing.