[i]So they arrive up in Glasgow and just dump him you say - now can you imagine anybody doing that - what you are describing is an abduction at best kidnapping at worst - and you claim that serving police officers did this because they were trying to extort money from a traveller? What they could get from this close friend of yours was worth more than their careers, salaries and pensions? Come on get real, and they leave behind a trail of evidence a mile wide plus the victim who can identify them - highly bloody unlikely.
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You seem to doubt any police force in a civilised country would do such a thing. I remember one similar, well documented case of Dutch police in Rotterdam, where I was living at the time, who picked up a drunk/junkie and dropped him well outside the city. Please note here Dutch police is generally less involved controversy compared to the UK force.

The only reason this ever became well documented was that they chose to do this on a very cold winter's night on which the man froze to death.

So yes, I certainly believe policemen are well capable of serving rough justice (as they see it) and more or less routinely do so.