Former police officer sentenced to 10 years in prison for two rapes and abuse of third woman
Ross resigned from Police Scotland in June after being found guilty by jury the previous month
A former police officer who raped two women and subjected a third to a campaign of abuse has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Cameron Ross, 39, was sentenced today (Thursday) after earlier being found guilty of offences against women in the Inverness and Western Isles areas.
Ross carried out attacks in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in 2012 and 2014, before abusing another woman in Inverness between 2019 and 2022.
He was a serving officer at the time.
Ross , who resigned from Police Scotland in June 2026, has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
He pleaded not guilty to the crimes but was found guilty at jury trial in May.
Faye Cook, of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), said Ross had carried out "deliberate and repeated acts of abuse against women over the course of a decade".
She added: "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."
Chief Superintendent Helen Harrison, Head of Professional Standards at Police Scotland, said the force “worked closely” with prosecutors “to achieve this outcome”.
She added: "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.”
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