Siobhian Brown said complaints made against the multi-millionaire author were an operational matter for Police Scotland.
An SNP minister has refused to say if comments by Harry Potter author JK Rowling could have been recorded by police as a non-crime hate incident.
Amid reports that more than 3,000 complaints have been received so far, the minister also revealed a false complaint had been made in her name. Rowling, a prominent critic of the Scottish Government’s stance on trans rights, effectively challenged police to arrest her if they believed she had committed a crime.
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