Scotland has its first female Chief Constable – and there is no doubt that Jo Farrell now has one of the toughest jobs in UK policing.
The justice system in Scotland was left reeling from not guilty verdicts in the Alex Salmond trial and the fallout from the Rangers prosecutions. Farrell will have to negotiate her way through the current criminal probe into the SNP finances, which led to the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon.
She has already dealt with sensitive political matters, having led Durham Constabulary while it investigated two major figures. Her previous job saw her in the eye of the storm when Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings was accused of flouting lockdown rules, including a visit to Barnard Castle in Durham.
