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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Police Scotland pays out nearly £1m to ex-officer over sexism case

Rhona Malone
Malone has been awarded £948,000 in damages and costs after she won an employment tribunal last year. Photograph: Universal News And Sport (Europe)/BBC/UNPIXS (Europe)

Police Scotland has paid out nearly £1m in compensation to a former firearms officer victimised by “horrific” boys’ club sexism in the force’s elite armed response unit.

The force’s chief constable, Iain Livingstone, has also apologised to Rhona Malone, who quit the force’s firearms unit in Edinburgh where misogynistic abuse and bullying were rife.

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