Report Summary
This report provides members of the Forensic Services Committee with an overview of Drug Driving Update.
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Meeting
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Forensic Services Committee - 3 February 2025
Date : 03 February 2025
Location : Online
Six-Month Timeline
As part of the work associated with the return to a six-month timeline, Forensic Services have actively engaged and worked in partnership with COPFS and Police Scotland. The timeline is agreed and forms part of the updated MOU, signed by all parties and published in January 2025.
The timeline is designed to provide collective flexibility thereby improving performance. Stretch targets are used, for example the previous [more rigid] timeline required Police Scotland to submit all samples within 14 days of the case. This performance indicator remains with the understanding that 80% will be submitted within 14 days, 90% by 21 days and 100% by day 28.
Conversely, Forensic Services will report 95% of cases within the three-month target, with it being accepted that a small number of cases, 5%, will extend beyond that time period.
Work is currently under way to establish suitable and sufficient performance management arrangements which, will accurately monitor and report on performance across all targets identified within the newly introduced six-month timeline.
