police should always be held in custody until appearing in court, frontline officers demand. The Scottish Police Federation want a crackdown on the minority of offenders trying to inflict “misery” on the public.
It follows recent figures showing more than 100 crimes where officers or staff were victims of offences in the first three weeks of lockdown in Scotland.
Officers have been spat or deliberately coughed on by people who could have the potentially lethal coronavirus.Calum Steele, chief of the Scottish Police Federation, said: “These kind of horrific crimes - spitting in someone’s face, in their mouth or in their direction, in a deliberate attempt to either infect them with a potentially deadly virus or to cause them such alarm as to.