Police Scotland officers who draw attention to issues of misogyny and sexism in the force feel they have a "target" on their back and worry they will be labelled as a grass.
The new report also found a “boys’ club culture” exists in areas of the service where “the real team meetings happen on the golf course”. The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) paper said officers will often excuse sexist behaviour as "banter" and if colleague pulls them up on it, they are accused of not being able to take a joke and singled out by the team.
It comes after Police Scotland Chief Constable Sir Iain Livingstone last week stated that the force in Scotland “is institutionally racist and discriminatory”. The latest study analysed 528 responses to an anonymous online survey, with 81% of participants agreeing that sexism and misogyny is a problem on the service.
