Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority Policing Performance Committee with the final update of the Benchmarking Short Life Working Group, detailing the key achievements of the group and outlining how benchmarking and comparative analysis is now embedded in the Police Scotland performance, underpinning ongoing continuous improvement activity.
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Benchmarking Tiers
The SLWG have also agreed that all benchmarking measures will be assigned to a tier, to determine how appropriate the comparisons are and whether they should be reported publicly or only used internally.
To determine the tiers, six data quality dimensions were used, as defined by the Data Management Association and detailed in The UK Government’s (2020) Data Quality Framework. These are as follows:
• Completeness
– All data items are recorded.
• Uniqueness
– Unique records have no duplicates.
• Timeliness
– The degree to which data represent reality from the required point in time.
• Consistency
– Data is consistent if it doesn’t contradict data in another data set.
• Validity
– Valid data is stored in a data set in the appropriate format for that type of data.
• Accuracy
– The data reflects the ‘real world’ and is an accurate comparison.
