Strathclyde Police are set to swoop of 50 targets to clamp down on on-line crime.

As well as websites promoting racist or sectarian hatred individuals who post similar material on social media sites such as facebook and twitter will also be arrested.

“This is not a final warning,” Superintendent Kirk Kinnell of Strathclude Police told the Daily Record.

“We know who we are targeting. We have at least 50 live inquiries and we will be coming to the home addresses of people in the near future.”

“All of the inquiries are at different stages. It is a complex process but there is no hiding place on the internet.

“It is a broad-ranging inquiry and we are looking at comments about various individuals. This goes back to before the latest parcel bomb incidents.

“So some of them are sectarian comments about Neil Lennon and some are racist comments about El Hadji-Diouf, for example. But all are violent and hate-filled.

“These kind of comments have become particularly prolific over recent weeks and that has brought it into focus for us.

“It is at the point where they have become filled with hate and anger and are likely to incite violent behaviour so we are acting on these as quickly as we can.

“Everywhere we find people spreading the disease of hate online is where we will focus our activity.”

“It is not difficult for us to track these people. We have cooperation from the Internet Service Providers Association and media companies which facilitate websites. They are helping us to identify those responsible.

“This operation will continue for as long as it needs to. We will be relentless in tracking these people down until they stop posting this kind of abuse on the internet.

“And if it stops in the coming weeks but flares up again next season, we will be right back on top of them again.”

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