Hundreds of officers have been accused of breaking Covid laws – by their own whistleblowing colleagues.
More than one cop every two days was accused of breaching lockdown rules at the height of the pandemic, new figures show.
Police Scotland said Operation Talla – the force’s codename for its response to the pandemic – identified allegations about 208 officers believed to have fallen foul of laws that limited house gatherings and introduced social distancing.
The cases included acting Sergeant Lara McAulay and her then fiance, PC Gordon Dunn, who were caught having a drinking session with friends and family at a party to celebrate a Rangers victory in the SPFL title race in January 2021.
Cops issued five fines during the rammy in Rutherglen, near Glasgow, which saw Dunn, 33, get so drunk he ended up committing a sectarian breach of the peace.
Top brass also launched a disciplinary probe on top of the prosecution, which saw the couple split up.
The 208 cases made up a total of 2743 cases concerning cops’ behaviour that Police Scotland’s in-house team looked at last year.
The force established new whistleblowing procedures amid controversy in 2017.
Investigators in its Professional Standards Gateway Unit were ordered to look at allegations of unethical, unprofessional and illegal behaviour.
New figures, presented to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), show how whistleblowing has nearly trebled since its creation.
In 2017-18 just 1175 claims were probed.
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