A former Highlands and Western Isles police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of violent and non-recent sexual offences against women.

Cameron Ross, 39, resigned from Police Scotland in June 2026. He has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

Chief Superintendent Helen Harrison, Head of Professional Standards, 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."

It's been reported that Ross was immediately suspended when the report of his offences was received in June 2022. 

Chief Superintendent Harrison said: "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.”