Police officer jailed for 10 years after raping two women and abusing third
Cameron Ross has been jailed following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh
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A police officer who raped two women and carried out a campaign of abuse against a third across the North of Scotland has been jailed for 10 years.
Cameron Ross carried out the attacks at locations on the Isle of Lewis and Inverness between 2012 and 2022.
The 39-year-old was suspended from Police Scotland in 2024 and officially resigned from the force earlier this year.
He denied the charges, but was found guilty following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh in May.
Ross was convicted of offences including rape, domestic abuse, attempting to pervert the course of justice and threatening or abusive behaviour.
He has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Police Scotland's Head of Professional Standards, Chief Superintendent Helen Harrison, thanked those who came forward as she recognises "how difficult that can be when the perpetrator is a police officer."
She said: "Cameron Ross has been convicted for repeatedly abusing and sexually abusing women.
"We've worked closely with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to achieve this outcome.
"Ross was a serving officer at the time of these offences and when the report was received in June 2022, we immediately suspended him. He has since resigned from the service. If he had remained, we would have progressed gross misconduct proceedings and he would have been dismissed as his actions and behaviour will not be tolerated in Police Scotland.
"I want to thank those who came forward and recognise how difficult that can be when the perpetrator is a police officer.
"Police Scotland continues to work with survivors’ groups to improve our response to violence against women and girls to embed an approach which places survivors at the heart of our investigation with a trauma-informed approach and we remain committed to further improvement.
"Equally, over a period of years, and advanced by Lady Elish Angiolini's review in 2020, there has been a Scotland wide focus on police ethics, conduct and scrutiny.
"We continue to fully engage with those developments to strengthen our safeguarding of policing's integrity and we're working to embed new legislation to continue that improvement.
"We fully accept the onus is on policing to build confidence with members of the public, victims and witnesses to ensure they can report wrongdoing by police officers and staff, and can be confident that robust action will be taken.
“Police Scotland is committed to reviewing its processes, policies, and procedures, which continue to evolve and are shaped by feedback.
"The ability to handle police misconduct matters in a more robust, timely and transparent way will now also be greatly strengthened by the Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Act 2025.”
Procurator Fiscal for High Court Sexual Offences at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), Faye Cook, said: "Cameron Ross carried out deliberate and repeated acts of abuse against women over the course of a decade.
“This was sustained offending, which caused significant harm.
“As a police officer, he was in a position of trust. Instead of upholding the law, he chose to break it in a serious and persistent way.
“I would urge anyone affected by similar offending to come forward and report it.
“The Crown is committed to prosecuting those responsible for sexual and domestic abuse, regardless of who they are.”