A shock email shows that senior police officers dismissed sexism claims from a West Lothian firearms officer as “low level” months before legal action was raised against Police Scotland.Former PC Rhona Malone - who worked in Bathgate and Livingston - raised the tribunal against the force, alleging sex discrimination and victimisation.An employment tribunal ruled on Wednesday that the culture in an armed policing unit within Police Scotland was “horrific” and an “absolute boys club.”It accepted evidence of a “sexist culture” in the armed response vehicles unit (ARV) in the east of Scotland.
But the Daily Record revealed that an email sent by Chief Superintendent Mark Hargreaves of the force’s Professional Standards Department (PSD) dismissed
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