Police Scotland - Boys' Club accused of bullying women officers

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Scotland's police watchdog is investigating a group of male officers accused of criminality and sexist bullying of female colleagues.

The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) probe centres on the Moray town of Forres and has been questioning witnesses over ten months.

It is alleged that male officers - nicknamed "the boys' club" - drove a female officer to a forest at night where they abandoned her.

This was to "teach her a lesson" after she made a report of domestic violence and sexual assault against her police officer ex-partner.

A second female constable, in the late stages of pregnancy, was allegedly locked in a first-floor room inside Forres police station, forcing her to flee through the fire escape.

A female civilian officer was also allegedly locked in a ground-floor room at the same police station. She escaped by climbing out a window.

That's awful

And they are the ones supposed to be upholding the law....

What chance have women got getting protection and justice when even the police are against us. as an aside I watched Unbelievable on Netflix and the female officers thought the rapist they were looking for might be a police officer. DV is very common in the police and they all cover for each other. US show but I'm sure it's the same here.

I can't be the only woman who hopes for 'just' subconscious bias and prejudice in police officers, rather than overt, conscious, abusive behaviour, condoned by all their peers.

Repulsive.

Yes terry.

Terrible behaviour and there must be an attitude in the police where they truly think that it’s no problem to behave like this

They must thinkits ok to act like this

I remember this horrific story when it first made it into the news a couple of years ago. What stands out now is that the original internal investigation has been buried without trace.

Would be interesting to know what the figures are for vetting for Police Scotland given the report by HMICFRS last week.

But Scotland is so much more progressive innit Mhairi?

Not surprised by this. I live in Moray now. In some workplaces here, the attitude towards women, gay people, immigrants, people on benefits, basically anyone who’s not “one of the boys” etc was pretty shocking for me at first.

Like I’d gone back in a time machine. Relatively small place, very close knit, change takes a long time. Hopefully that’s something a national force will be able to sort out when the local police don’t want to.