Police Scotland officers describe culture of sexism and victim-blaming

Those surveyed say sexist behaviour under-reported, with those who challenge it often ‘isolated from the team’

Sexism and misogyny within the ranks of Police Scotland is “massively under-reported”, with those who do come forward made to feel they have “a target on their back” and a culture of victim-blaming favouring perpetrators, according to those in the force.

The extensive survey of how officers feel about their colleagues has neem published less than a week after the force’s chief constable, Sir Iain Livingstone, publicly acknowledged Police Scotland was institutionally racist and discriminatory.