police complaints and investigations in Scotland today called for urgent action on discrimination within the force. Scotland’s former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini QC also made a case for significant reform of the current system - calling for a raft of new powers for independent handling of complaints and making dozens of recommendations relating to police culture, misconduct investigations and deaths in custody.
And the lawyer acting on behalf of the family of Sheku Bayoh, a dad who died in police custody in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 2015, described her findings as a “devastating and damning indictment of a police complaint system not fit for purpose in a modern and democratic Scotland”.