Police Scotland include sex shop in list of locations where you can report a hate crime

Are the any other crimes that you can report at your hairdressers or mushroomery? This is utterly mad.

Yes, someone could report you for looking at them a bit funny, you become the talk of the mushroom farm and, before you know it, it's all over the Cairngorms that you were arrested for harassing elderly Hungarian lesbians, or similar.

Scenes outside the Glasgow sex shop earlier today.

Oh, dear. Police Scotland is trending on Twitter and everyone's taking the piss.

Women are not protected. Only the people with special feels.

Exactly Soup - what would happen if JKR walked in and to report the flowery prose she receives.

”computer says no”

And what happens if some bored crones with pointy hats be-ribboned in purple, white and green, or even some friends of Mark Thomas (see ) decide to test the new system by reporting to the police via the sex shop a hate crime of hearing something said in the sex shop that they found offensive? This could get very tricky.

Why on Earth are retail staff expected to deal with the outraged and offended because someone looked sideways at them?! Why can't people just report to 101 or even Crimestoppers? Just when you think ScotGov can't get any more ridiculous they go and outdo themselves. We're a complete laughing stock.

Fucking hell. I mean, I’ve visited the Stasi museum in Berlin and I’ve actually learned from history unlike some others in power.

I'm surprised that anyone who lives in the SNP's land of milk & honey can be surprised by this - this is 100% on brand 😩

As a PP said, presumably this is going to be a GDPR nightmare, even if the reportee remains anonymous, presumably data will be held on the alleged perpetrator.

Have the people who will be taking down these reports been background checked? Could those who are on the sex offenders register be able to do this? Will they have those enhanced police checks (forgot name, brainfog) for those under 18yr needing to report? Who holds the original data especially if it's written down (for any reason).

If the complainant isn't comfortable reporting in a station or online to the police, what happens if the police want to take that report further?

So many questions 😱

Are they Magic Mushrooms?

Once again, I'm fucking embarrassed by the state of our government.

Everyone, the majority of the Scottish populace thinks this is just as fucking batshit bampot bollocks as everyone else does, only more so. We have to fucking live here!

Not just data confidence - what about data confidentiality? Imagine:
"Guess what I overheard when I was buying my trout / bondage gear / saying a prayer"
or :
"Guess what someone said today when they came in to buy a salmon, nipple clamp, asked me to pray with them?"

😱

I assume at the demolished office block you report to the site manager or, perhaps, the homeless junkie who dosses down there.

you are on holiday in Scotland and someone looks funny at you. Lucky you are in that caravan park

off to get some fish at the fish farm place someone misgenders you. Thank fuck for the fish farm

off to get some shopping and a Weegie calls you a bam pot. Thank god I am in East Kilbride shopping centre

thank you my Scottish government I feel so safe

As noted by many, Police Scotland are currently closing police stations nationwide.

I suppose replacing them with ... mushroom farms and sex shops ... is somewhat appropriate.

'Calum Steele, the former general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation said he was concerned about what the third party centres might do the reliability of crime data.
“With literally hundreds of third party reporting vehicles available - inevitably each one with their own interpretive vagaries - that means data confidence will be nigh on impossible to be derived,” he wrote on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
He added: “I suspect that within a very short period of time we will have ‘data’ suggesting Scotland to be one of the most ‘hateful’ counties on earth. This Jackanory data will be used to justify an endless drive to deliver a Pygmalion utopia.”'

A few years ago I’d have thought this was something for a Monty Python sketch..

My mind is really boggling. Too scared to approach the police but comfortable walking into a sex shop?

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/hate-crime-law-glasgow-lgbt-sex-shop-designated-official-reporting-centre-for-controversial-new-laws-4553231?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1710347901

'Scottish Conservative MSP Annie Wells said: “Serious questions must be asked as to who thought a sex shop was an appropriate setting to report a hate crime.

We at Four Pillars take hate crime of any form very seriously and we will do everything we can to help you report any incidents or targeted incidents to the appropriate authorities.
If you have been targeted because of your disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity, or you are aware of someone else being targeted, you can report it to us or Police Scotland.
Reporting hate crime is important. If you report the incident, we work with Police Scotland to deal with it, we can try to prevent the same thing happening to someone else and together we can aim to get Scotland hate free.
We are committed to dealing with hate crime and take all reports of hate crime seriously.
For some people they do not feel comfortable reporting Hate Crime matters directly to the Police and may be more comfortable reporting it to someone they are familiar with, so you can report any Hate Crime that you have experienced or have witnessed to us.
To ensure everyone is able to report Hate Crimes, the team at Four Pillars have been trained by Police Scotland to become a 3rd Party Reporting Centre. We are able to submit a report to Police Scotland with you or we can make such a report on your behalf.

https://www.fourpillarsuk.org/reporting/

You can also report anonymously online.

But they say that some people are too scared or vulnerable to go to the police. So they can head to their friendly local sex shop instead.