Report Summary
Issued 27 March 2023, this FOI response advises that information on police compensation claims paid is not held by the Scottish Police Authority. Advice is provided that Police Scotland may hold information.
Request
Can I please ask how many payments and the combined total of payments have been made for compensation claims from your police force in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022? Can these be sent as separate annual totals?
Further, can I have the details - within the limits of privacy and protection - for any individual compensation payments over £50,000 within these years. If, for instance, a compensation has been granted for a death in custody, could the reason, gender and age of victim, prison and total compensation be cited? If any of these would violate the FOI and as such result in a rejection, please redact and proceed on the others.
I'd also like this separated into police officer/staff compensation and public liability please.
