Police Scotland has been accused of hypocrisy after launching an ad campaign against sexual violence and harassment of women while failing to tackle misogyny among its own officers.
The Don’t Be That Guy campaign was launched on social media last week, showing a discussion of the issues in a pub and urging men to step in and call out the unacceptable behaviour of their friends. It follows last year’s That Guy campaign when the national force urged men to take responsibility for their actions and language.
Today, however, former Police Scotland officers who suffered sexual assault or misogyny – or tried to stand up for colleagues who were enduring it – accuse their former force of double standards.
Gemma MacRae, a whistleblower who left the force after attempting to expose a “boys’ club” culture of misogyny and bullying in her station, said: “After what I experienced, I can say with absolute certainty that Don’t Be That Man is a masterclass in double standards.
“Police Scotland must have a solid brass neck asking anyone to call out sexism or misogyny when they continue spectacularly to fail female officers. After I came forward, more than a dozen officers from three different areas made similar allegations against an officer seen as the ringleader and, all these years later, he’s still sitting in a job.”
Last month MacRae, who eventually resigned from her job, accused Police Scotland of failing to tackle a systemic culture of sexism at her station in Moray after a former...
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