A POLICE officer has been unmasked as a violent rapist who carried out a series of attempted murders and sexual attacks on women over the last 14 years.
PC Alan Greer, who was a 47-year-old married father of one, took his own life on May 6 this year – but his “truly shocking” crimes were not revealed by Police Scotland until two months after his death.
PC Alan Greer has been unmasked as a violent rapist Credit: POLICE SCOTLAND
He has been dubbed ‘Police Scotland’s Wayne Couzens’ Credit: Alamy
His wife and family are set to be “completely oblivious” to his double life.
According to the BBC , his first known victim was a woman he raped in her home in Glasgow in 2012 after she called the police to report being the victim of a crime.
The woman reported the sex attack by Greer late last year, sparking one of Police Scotland’s biggest ever anti-corruption inquiries.
A source close to the investigation said: “It feels a bit like this could be Police Scotland’s Wayne Couzens moment.”
Couzens was a Met Police officer who was jailed for the rape and murder of Sarah Everard in London five years ago.
Detectives have so far uncovered a further eight victims, five of whom were sex workers, attacked while Greer was off duty.
It has emerged that Greer used hundreds of prostitutes throughout his police career, and it is anticipated more victims of his violence will be identified.
Assistant Chief Constable Lynn Ratcliff, gold commander for the investigation, said what the inquiry had found was “truly shocking”.
She said: “This officer has clearly abused his power and has revisited someone that he’s encountered in the course of his duties.
“But this victim was brave enough to come and speak to us, and that really was the trigger point for us starting our investigation.
“That’s allowed us to proactively identify eight further victims.”
Greer, who was born in Australia in 1978, moved to the UK when he was six.
He joined Strathclyde Police in 2009 before it merged with Police Scotland in 2013 and had 17 years of apparently unblemished service.
Senior officers insisted there were no “red flags” to spot his offending sooner.
The investigation into PC Greer began at the end of 2025 when a woman in her late thirties reported him to the force.
She told how in 2012, uniformed officers had attended her Glasgow home after she reported a disturbance.
The officers took her statement and left, but a few hours later, one of the officers returned, alone, and raped her.
The case was handed to the force’s anti-corruption unit (ACU) who, by April, had secured a statement from her and were able to identify the officers who had attended.
And they could see that in the weeks following the 2012 attack, one of those officers – later identified as being PC Greer – repeatedly monitored the women’s crime file on the police computer – perhaps checking to see if she made further disclosures about what happened later that day.
More to follow.
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