Deluge of hate crime complaints overwhelming Scottish police
Police Scotland “can’t cope” with a deluge of hate crime reports made under the SNP’s new law, frontline officers have claimed.
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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 colleague (and there have bee
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.