Who We Are

The Scottish Police Authority is independent of both the Scottish Government and policing. It is the primary governance body for policing in Scotland, and was established as a public body on 1 April 2013 by the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012. It was set up to hold the Chief Constable to account; promote, support and oversee improvement in policing. It is also responsible for the management and delivery of Forensic Services in Scotland and Independent Custody Visiting Scotland.

In this section, find out more about the Authority’s priorities, the Board and the Leadership team.

Who We Are

What We Do

The Scottish Police Authority is responsible for maintaining policing. It has four specific areas of responsibility:

promoting the policing principles

supporting continuous improvement

keeping policing under review

holding the Chief Constable to account.

This section tells you in outline what the Authority does.

What We Do

Publication Library

The Authority is committed to conducting its activity in an open and transparent manner, and in a way that builds trust and confidence in policing.

In this section we aim to make as much of our information as possible available, accessible and searchable. Our publication scheme summarises all of the information we publish. This aims to improve public access to the information we hold and encouraging public awareness of, and participation in, the decisions we make.

Where possible we provide a suitable HTML alternative and / or make documents accessible. Please contact us if you would like to request a corporate publication in an alternative format.

Scottish Police Authority - Publication Scheme

Committee

Topic

HMICS Inspections Improvement Plans – Progress Summary for Demand, Custody, Fife and Dumfries & Galloway - 11 June 2024

Published: 13 June 2024

Publication Policing Performance Committee

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Forensic Services Business Plan - 7 May 2024

Published: 01 May 2024

Publication Forensics Services Committee

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FOI 2023/24-060 - Joint Fire Investigation Report re incident in Aberdeen

Published: 03 January 2024

Publication

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Quarter 2 Financial Monitoring Report - 15 November 2023

Published: 10 November 2023

Publication Resources Committee

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Strategic Workforce Planning – Audit Risk & Assurance Committee Referral - 15 June 2023

Published: 25 July 2023

Publication Resources Committee

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