Police Scotland “can’t cope” with the deluge of hate crime reports made under the SNP’s new law, frontline officers have warned. The Telegraph has more.
David Threadgold, Chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, also claimed that officers remained confused about who should be charged because of inadequate training.
Around 8,000 hate crime reports were made in the first week of the legislation coming into force, with Mr. Threadgold warning that it was being exploited to fuel personal and political vendettas.
“Police Scotland have gone public and said that on every occasion, reports of hate crime will be investigated,” Mr. Threadgold told the BBC. “That creates a situation where we simply cannot cope at the moment.
“Officers have been brought back in to do overtime shifts, and the management of that is simply unsustainable.
“When you have vexatious complaints, people who look to weaponise this legislation or who make these complaints for personal gain or political point scoring, then that creates a problem for the police which can affect public satisfaction in my organisation.
“Now, the First Minister in Scotland can talk about his confidence, and Police Scotland’s ability to deal with vexatious complaints as he has done, but what we have never seen before is the scale of the complaints are coming in around one piece of legislation.”
Claims also emerged on Monday that police had dismissed a complaint about a relative of an SNP politician, who allegedly posted an anti-Semitic image online because the complainant was not Jewish.
The new legislation, which was passed by MSPs in 2021 but only came into force this month, makes it an offence to “stir up hatred” against protected groups such as transgender people, the disabled and the elderly.
Ahead of enforcement, the SNP Government and Police Scotland launched a campaign urging the public to report all instances of “hate” but have been taken aback by the volume of complaints.
Police officers received just two hours of online training which Mr. Threadgold said had not been adequate to equip them to make difficult judgements around complex issues such as how to balance freedom of speech.
SNP politicians also repeatedly failed to clarify to what extent “misgendering” a trans person, meaning referring to them as a member of their biological sex, would be a crime under the new law.
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Police Scotland will be forced to think outside the box on this one and come up with a radical solution. I suppose they could turn the whole business into a Saturday night entertainment – a televised draw where five lucky complainants will win a chance to see their case taken up for prosecution. The sheeple will love this, a sort of bloodless Gladiatorial contest. For the thousands of losers it would be a case of “try again next week.” Perhaps it could even be monetized? There would certainly be advertising revenue to help fund the prosecutions.
It strikes me there is a massive opportunity here just waiting to be realised and exploited. What fun.
And there would be a rollover to next week where the winners will not only have their case heard but win a week in Corfu and a years supply of EU and Palestinian flags.
It would make a great comedy sketch, of the type Monty Python were so brilliant at, but the BBC doesn’t allow any anti-establishment comedy these days – anti-Conservative yes, but anti-establishment, anti-woke, no, no, no, not on the BBC. Comedy on the BBC must be woke now, it has to be in line with BBC propaganda.
You are onto something! TV Court shows are big in USA and amusing. https://www.tiktok.com/@cuaghtprovidence1/video/7191926990964886789?lang=en
Well we never saw any of this coming did we?! Pff…..I hope Yousaf is left with a load of egg on his face when this whole thing inevitably implodes and he’s left looking like the toxic clown that he is. How dare he treat the people like this and expect to get away with it. JK Rowling shamed him by showing just how farcical and unworkable the whole shambles is in just 24 hours. Good time to be a career criminal in Clown World, Scotland though;
”Scottish police have warned that the controversial new hate speech law enacted by the leftist government of Humza Yousaf will force police to cut backs on the policing of actual crimes.
The head of the Scottish Police Federation (SPF), David Threadgold, warned on Saturday that the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act will necessitate sacrificing other areas of policing due to the strain on officer time recording and investigating complaints of potential speech violations.
Speaking to The Scotsman, the SPF chairman said: “At some point in the next financial year, the police service will not do something because of the demand that it’s being placed under now… That will have an impact later on in the year, there’s no doubt about it.”
Threadgold explained that overtime payments for the increased demand on policing hours have not been budgeted for and that officers have not been adequately trained on how they are to enforce the speech codes, saying: “What we have been told is confusion is the word that reigns here.”
Criticising the first minister, Tory member of Scottish Parliament Russell Findlay said: “Humza Yousaf arrogantly refused to listen to anyone who warned that his hate crime law would put extreme pressure on Scotland’s police officers.
“The SNP, backed by Labour, still voted for this terrible legislation despite these practical concerns and freedom of speech fears. It is utterly disgraceful if this results in preventing the police from being unable to fulfil their duties.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/06/scottish-police-warn-hate-speech-law-will-force-cut-backs-in-policing-actual-crimes/
I agree but he could not have enacted this law without the support of the rest of the SNP and other Parties.
SNP and the Greens vote everything through in Scotland. It is a kind of commie pincer movement. But I believe it was only the Conservatives that voted against this trash, which means Labour have questions to answer. ——If I am correct.
And the tacit support of Fishy who didn’t squash it when he could have…..
It is classic lefty law making. They are not very bright people so they come up with not very bright laws. There should be a ban on anyone with an IQ of less than 100 becoming a MP, MSP or whatever Wales calls their elected aristocrats
Stupid gets its just deserts.
Have they received 45,000+ allegations of hate crimes from the Rangers v Celtic match yet?
If not, hope the Scots start getting them in soon.
Scotlands First Busy Body Hamza Youssif, sorry Hamzi Yasef, sorry, Humza Yassoof, I mean Amza Buffoon said today ……………………………..
Hummus Yousuffer is my nickname for this leftard ****wit.
I struggle to believe that this was not exactly what they expected.
So two things spring to mind:
1) They want the police to be overhwelmed so that they have an excuse for the police not doing anything else, or they want to use this as a way to get social media platforms to police it for them.
2) They knew it would happen, and what they want to happen now is for the number of incidents to die right down but for people to be afraid to speak their minds, so they self-police.
True, this could all be a “shock and awe” campaign to get us all to subconsciously shy away from speaking anti-narrative viewpoints after it is inevitably demonstrated that this daft charade cannot be enforced… But what better way to divide and conquer the people, than providing hate-crime reporting centres (that you can even choose to do online!) – the ultimate platform for turning people against each other?
Or more suspiciously, claim they need to privatise and pay incentives for ‘nicks’ (like they have to stop PIP payments)? Wouldn’t put it past those b*stards.
Anyone with a glimmer of self-respect and integrity will speak out long and loud in protest at the prevailing lunacy rather than self-censor or shut up. The ruling traitors’ efforts to silence us MUST fail.
At this juncture in our history we need to enrage the woke haters of history and evoke Churchill’s call to ‘fight . . .fight . . . fight’.
Especially on the beaches.
Absolutely agree tof. Without a doubt plod will have the perfect excuse for every single cock-up.
Prosecutions though?
Can’t agree that it was all a cunning plan. The SNP are low-IQ to start with, thinking it’s a great idea to exit the UK only to throw themselves into the arms of the EUSSR.
Being simplistic leftards, they believe ideology can solve all problems and go full tilt at passing idiotic laws without thinking through the consequences in the real world of complex human beings.
They’re not bright enough to consider abstract principles such as the importance of free speech and the dangers of suppressing it.
The next General Election will be a test of the Scottish voters’ intelligence: will they realise that the chance of Scotland going ‘independent’ is a busted flush and the SNP clowns are jumping on any wokey hokey bandwagon in order to justify their existence?
Will they kick Hummus Yousuffer & his lackeys into the gutter where they belong?
You may well be correct.
When you start manufacturing petards then you must expect to be hoisted by one or two (thousand?).
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https://thenewconservative.co.uk/is-employment-a-right-or-a-privilege/
Crikey!
The cost of employing a new, full time employee is £23,795.20 (40 hours @ £11.44) plus 3% compulsory pension contributions and 13.8% employers NI contributions.
And government isn’t determined to destroy the country.
So a 40 hour week now pays nearly £25 grand p a. Not bad for shopfloor Primark or Maccy D’s.
Hard to have much sympathy with the Scottish police (individual officers maybe), they signed up this and promised all complaints would be investigated and recorded.
Police should not be put in a position to investigate subjective matters.
Police forces in UK need to get real and return to investigating real crimes, and serving their oaths:
I, … of … do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve the Queen/King in the office of constable, with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality, upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all people; and that I will, to the best of my power, cause the peace to be kept and preserved and prevent all offences against people and property; and that while I continue to hold the said office I will to the best of my skill and knowledge discharge all the duties thereof faithfully according to law.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha jeez.———– Look at that imbecile. You can envisage a situation in the Socialist Republic of Scotlandia where the plod will arrive in their vans with Poileas on the side to emphasise how Scotland is a separate country with its own language and should really be getting “Independence”. They then won’t bother arresting the burglar on your property. They will arrest you for daring to offend the cretinous goon.
So they can’t cope with fake crime, as well as real crime.
Just imagine if all reports of “hate” really did get investigated, at a rate of thousands per day, by the end of the year number of people with “NCHI” against their name in an extended background check could run into the millions, thus unemployment will skyrocket and we’ll all be eligible our monthly Universal Basic Income, but only if we’re all good boys and girls, of course.
Whats the percentage of thefts, burglaries, Rapes, violent crimes etc being solved by Police? I wonder has the statistics improved since this bill was brought in? It appears to me that the SNP are a danger to the citizens of Scotland, but if they keep voting them in they must believe it to be far more important for Police to investigate name calling than it is to catch the Murderers and Rapists.
Yuseless is using the act as an islamophbia law. He cares nothing about the other groups named in the act. Fifth columnist working for the Ummah.
Yep, sneaking in via the back door the blasphemy against izlam law they have been whining about for years. No country in the UK should have an izlamic as its leader. Look at the mess Sadist **** has made of Londonistan. We need a new capital city.