A Police Scotland officer described as “Scotland’s Wayne Couzens” took his own life after committing a 14-year pattern of rape and attempted murder, it emerged today.
PC Alan Greer died by suicide in May, but Police Scotland did not publicly disclose the full scale of his “truly shocking” alleged crimes until two months later.
The 47-year-old married father-of-one had led what investigators believe was a hidden double life, with his wife and family said to have been entirely “oblivious” to his offending.
Senior figures in the force have maintained there were no obvious “red flags” that would have exposed his years of abuse, but a source close to the inquiry said: “This could be Police Scotland’s Wayne Couzens moment.
“Folk will be in a state of shock when they learn the full truth. I don’t think anyone really knows how bad it is yet.”
Greer died on May 6 this year. At the time, colleagues were informed only through the force intranet that he had died while suspended and under criminal investigation.
Detectives have since established that he had nine victims, five of them sex workers. In several cases, the sexual assaults were so extreme that investigators treated them as attempted murder.
Greer is understood to have used multiple false names and at least seven mobile phones in an effort to conceal his identity and cover up his crimes.
Detectives have so far uncovered nine victims of PC Alan Greer, who was a serving Police Scotland officer who killed himself in May
Australian-born Greer, who came to the UK as a child, had 17 years of apparently unblemished service with Strathclyde Police and then Police Scotland.
But a woman came forward in late 2025 to say that he had raped her in 2012.
She had been a victim of a crime and police were called to check on her. Hours later Greer apparently came back to check again and raped her.
Wayne Couzens (pictured), abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard in 2021
After she gave a statement to anti-corruption officers earlier this year, on April 24, police raided his home and arrested him. He had seven mobile phones and a laptop seized.
Thousands of graphic sexual videos and images were recovered and revealed that he had used hundreds of prostitutes.
Detectives are still going through those videos and found that at least five were raped or sexually assaulted and some constituted attempted murder.
There were also a number of secret photographs he had taken of female colleagues while they were training.
Greer killed himself in early May.
Assistant Chief Constable Lynn Ratcliff, gold commander for the investigation, 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.’
A police source has compared him to PC Wayne Couzens, who used his job to commit heinous crimes.
Sarah Everard, 33, was kidnapped, raped and murdered in 2021 by Couzens as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London.
She was snatched from the street as she was walking home from a friend’s house towards Brixton on March 3, 2021.
A major Metropolitan Police investigation was launched and her body was found a week later in woodland in Kent. Couzens is serving a whole-life.
His case revealed major vetting failures at the Met and he had even exposed himself at a McDonald’s drive-thru days before he murdered Sarah but was not properly pursued.
ACC Ratcliff said the comparison between Greer and Couzens was unhelpful.
She told the BBC: ‘At this stage, we’ve got no evidence to suggest [missed red flags] is the case, but we absolutely keep that under review because one of the things that we have to do from inquiries of this nature is make sure that we capture and we take on board the lessons learned.’
