Angela Constance was quizzed in Holyrood after the Record revealed police are outsourcing the testing of hundreds of extra samples in spiking cases
Scotland's new justice secretary has agreed to “improve the experience” of spiking victims after the Record revealed concerns over delays in testing.
Constance told MSPs police data shows there were 601 recorded crimes relating to spiking between October 2021 and 2022. When quizzed on the speed forensic tests are processed in spiking cases, Constance said: “These are matters that we will continue to look at very closely because we need to improve the experience of people who have been a victim of such an abhorrent crime.”
She has campaigned for a range of measures to protect other women, saying samples should be taken “as quickly and as easily for the victims as possible”. Scottish Conservative MP Russell Findlay MSP, who is proposing a new bill to tackle spiking, said increased testing would be “welcomed by victims who have been failed for far too long”.
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