Farcical Fettes Press Office Flops Again

Rearrange the following words to form the basis a well established fact: press office, piss up, Lothian and Borders Police, brewery.
Much anger, bemusement, confusion but also resignation from assembled hacks who attended a media briefing at Fettes HQ this morning. The proceedings, overseen by press office boss Elayne Grim and four supporting staff, are in the Couldn't Make It Up category. I won't blog on it just now for operational reasons but look forward to adding more tomorrow - it's a hoot but also sadly a reflection on the inepdtitude of the media double act which is Acting Chief Constable Tom Halpin and La Grim.
It was interesting to note that at least (and at last) the Edinburgh Evening News have finally woken up to the jokers who are in charge of media relations at the Edinburgh force - see last Wednesday's splash.
This follows on from the disgraceful revelation that L and B failed to disclose an alleged rape of a female passenger at the hands of a bogus private hire car driver. For six days they kept schtum about the sexual assault, only going public on the case when the plods released they were not going to get a quick arrest.
By then of course, the media are asking why their readers (ie, the public who are supposed to be protected by L and B police) are only being told about this now and why should they run week-old news? But more importantly from a crime solving perspective, potential witnesses, late night revellers, taxi drivers etc, who could be of enormous help in providing leads in tracing the attacker, were being asked to recall an incident which happened almost a week before. Thank goodness, that in that six day news blackout period, the suspect has not struck again.
The pathetic L and B police press office, closely monitored by Tommy H, churn out the usual crap about the need to ensure information is accurate, the sensitive nature of the inquiry, not causing unneccessary alarm, blah de blah.
Who do they think they are kidding? This unacceptable sitaution has its roots with Halpin and Grymes who both mistakenly believe the best policy is to tell the media nothing, unless they get caught out or it's totally unavoidable.
I'm glad the Evening News are beginning to show some balls in holding L and B to account but it's about time others in the Scottish media banded together to ensure this poor excuse for a media operation is put under scrutiny and their failures are properly exposed.