Report Summary
This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of Chief Constable’s Assessment of Policing Performance 2022/23.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 12 September 2023
Date : 12 September 2023
Location : online
Background
Strategic planning arrangements for policing in Scotland are laid out in the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012. The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) is responsible for developing a Strategic Police Plan for policing that reflects the Scottish Government’s national outcomes, strategic police priorities and justice strategy.
In the terms of section 39 of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, the SPA must prepare the Annual Review of Policing (ARP) as soon as practicable after the end of each reporting year.
The Chief Constable is required to provide, within three months of the end of the reporting year 2022/23, an assessment of the performance of Police Scotland.
Police Scotland is responsible for producing an Annual Police Plan (APP) that sets out the arrangements to deliver against the Strategic Police Plan.
In order to streamline the reporting of activities towards objectives, Police Scotland have merged reporting on progress against the APP within the Chief’s Assessment of Policing Performance. This has resulted in a coherent and focussed report that provides key updates and links progress across activities to their objectives.
Details about work ongoing against individual activity can be provided to SPA upon request from the newly formed ‘evidence bank’ of specific, activity-by-activity updates.
