3 thoughts on “Police Scotland maintains world leading detection rate as every homicide committed in Scotland since 2013 has been solved”

1. The media, with justification, are focussing on the failure to arrest the killer of Emma Caldwell in 2007. This was, indeed, a shocking failure of policing.

   This occurred during the period when police forces in Scotland were run locally and the force responsible here was Strathclyde Police. Police Scotland had not yet been created. It was Police Scotland which solved this crime.

   However, the media are not making much of that. As far as they are concerned the ‘police’ are responsible ergo Police Scotland is responsible and this enables them to blame the Scottish Government, not the Scottish Government up to 2007 which was a Labour/LibDem coalition, but the present Scottish Government. There are – rightly – demands for an enquiry into why Emma Caldwell’s murderer evaded capture for so long despite their being strong evidence, but the anger in the media is directed at the current First Minister. Although the verdict was reached only this week, the fact that an enquiry has not been established is deemed as SG tardiness.

   On Reporting Scotland this week a former police officer, who was later Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation was interviewed because he was a serving officer at the time of the early investigation. He said that he had been so frustrated by the inaction of senior officers that in 2013 he ‘raised the matter with Nicola Sturgeon’. The interviewer did not latch on to this. However, it is a potential hook on which to hang blame on the SG.

   In a piece of self-aggrandisement BBC Scotland journalist Samantha Poling is implying that she had solved the murder.

   The attitude of police officers throughout the UK towards people reporting sexual offences against them has been appalling and many women, especially sex workers have been very unsympathetically treated, often with hostility. This week, too, we had Eilish Angiolini’s report into the Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Cousins who is in prison for raping and murdering Sarah Everard and assaulting other women. It is to be hoped that these two events this week lead to radical changes to the attitude of officers to whom sexual crimes are reported and to the procedures for recruiting officers. Although women form the largest group of victims of crimes of a sexual nature, but, per capita gay and trans people probably have as many crimes perpetrated against them. While attitudes towards gay men in the media has been much more sympathetic in recent years, the media attitude towards trans people is much more ambivalent.

   By coincidence, a convicted rapist who had claimed that ‘they’ now identified as a woman and wanted to be incarcerated in a women’s prison, also died this week and this gave the media the opportunity to rehash all the anti-trans ‘horror stories’.

   The media workers need to look at themselves – but, of course few will. Their job is to sew fear and hatred in society.

   Alasdair Macdonald

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2. They’re to be congratulated for solving 100% of homicide cases – but what about the solitary ‘SNP misappropriated our little donations’ case from 2021?

   Or has that been quietly shelved?

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