International

Malawi and Zambia: Scottish Government funding for our 3-year programme in Malawi and Zambia has been approved. This has allowed progress to be made with in-person delivery of training with 3 deployments to both Malawi and Zambia having been completed. As a result of these deployments, six Sexual Offences and Child Protection courses have been run in each country providing training to 120 police officers in Malawi and 118 police officers in Zambia.

The cadre of officers and staff supporting this has been expanded, providing a range of skills required during the programme and work has been progressing on the development of 3 new training packages – an adapted version of Sexual Offences Liaison Officers (SOLO) training, an adapted version of Joint Investigative Interview training and a course aimed at supervisors of more complex investigations.

Norway Mentoring Programme: this programme is now in its 3rd year and, due to its success, has been expanded to include Finland taking the total number of students to 8. The subjects being studied are negotiation, de-escalation, drugs death and domestic abuse.

This programme has also developed Police Scotland officers who undertook theoretical training in mentoring prior to taking part. The ongoing collaboration work with Norwegian and Finnish Police Universities has led to potential global funding opportunities through the UArctic network which would allow Police Scotland officers access to international studies and development programmes.

Global Police Innovation Exchange Board (GPX): an evaluation of Year 1 and 2 of the GPX Leadership Programme has been completed by the Australian Federal Police and findings presented in October 2024. Further discussions are ongoing in relation to which model to take forward.

The second cohort on this Programme will undertake the final residential element at Tulliallan from 7th February 2025 and will present their final Global Police Challenge presentations to the GPX Board.

Royal Falkland Islands Police (RFIP) secondments: following a recruitment exercise, 2 officers have been deployed to the Falkland Islands and have integrated well into the RFIP. Both offices are utilising their skills to assist in training and development of probationary officers. Correspondingly, an RFIP officer commenced probationer training at Tulliallan in January 2025.

International Study Visits: A range of inputs relating to Human Resources, Recruitment, Equality & Diversity and Staff Associations was given to a group of 35 officers and staff from the Norwegian Joint Police Association in December 2024.

World Cup 2026 / Major Football Events: In response to identified demand, particularly from North American partners ahead of the World Cup 2026, a 1-week programme has been developed and will be hosted at Tulliallan. It will focus on policing major football events.

A programme has been developed and key partners such as football clubs, the Scottish Football Association and the Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) will be involved in the delivery of the programme in 2025. It is intended that through the offering of this programme, Police Scotland will benefit from an extended network of international partnerships and will enhance the reputation of the organisation as a global leader in programmes of this nature.