Scots cops 'under stress due to criminal English officers such as Wayne Couzens'

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Police in Scotland are being placed under “stress”, and public perception of them is changing due to officers in England such as the killer Wayne Couzens, the leader of the Scottish Police Federation has said.David Kennedy said claims by the force’s former chief constable that Police Scotland is institutionally racist and sexist also had a “negative impact” on officers.Mr Kennedy told a fringe event at the Scottish Labour conference that officers had the “relentless task” of dealing with the “constant barrage of issues” stemming from forces south of the border.The SPF leader, whose organisation represents 99% of the nation’s officers, cited the case of Couzens, the Met officer who raped and murdered Sarah Everard, as well as serial rapist David Carrick, also from the Met in London.Asked what it was like to be a frontline officer in Scotland today, Mr Kennedy told a group at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow: “Being a frontline police officer in Scotland at the moment can be rewarding – that’s why police officers join.“But it’s extremely frustrating, and it’s quite a relentless task on the constant barrage, I would say, from the issues that have come from England and Wales, particularly around Wayne Couzens and David Carrick, has put quite a lot of stress on police officers, because they are on the whole good people who just want to do the job and that is a weight that is on them.“It became relative to me recently when I heard of a lone, older female when police officers went to the door to speak with her, and it wasn’t until her son came home at the same time that she’d asked if they wanted to come in for a coffee.“They said no, we have calls to go to.