The above statement is from the comments of a local policeman in Episode 2, Series 2 of Highland Cops, produced by a private company for BBC Scotland, at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024s8q/highland-cops-series-2-episode-2

BBC Reporting Scotland, BBC Scotland News of any form, last mentioned these gangs in 2021, only once before in 2019, but has never mentioned where they originate and has never used the word ‘English.’ You can watch this episode at 9pm tonight.

Unlike a BBC Scotland Disclosure episode, a Highland Cops episode has never been used as a story in Reporting Scotland.

This episode, and the series as a whole, is well worth watching. The County Lines gangs thread is a unique and important story you might want to share but another one of the threads, about a minor assault on a perhaps heavy-handed dog-owner, where the perp stays to admit guilt when the police arrive, one of the cops walks with the perp to the hospital and lets him talk about this out-of-character moment. It’s one of those feelgood moments we all need at times.

Why is this show remarkable?

BBC Scotland has only ever mentioned the term ‘County Lines’, in the headline to a story, twice, in 2019 and 2021 and never mentions that the flow of drugs is from English cities into Scotland. A BBC UK report in March 2024, mentions Scottish towns but does not use the term nor does it locate the gangs in English cities, as is the case, exclusively.

A quick Google search for ‘BBC Scotland County Lines’ and ‘STV County Lines’ is conclusive. The above table reveals clearly BBC Scotland’s unique aversion to reporting on this plague of cheap drugs, extreme violence, child abuse, prostitution and people trafficking in around 60 towns and villages across Scotland.

BBC Scotland is shamefully putting the interests of the Union ahead of the people of Scotland.