Response

To clarify, the Scottish Police Authority can confirm that Dr Olisa is not an Equality Advisor to the Authority. Following a search we can confirm there is no correspondence to or from Dr Olisa and the Authority. Therefore, the Scottish Police Authority does not hold the information you have requested and this represents a notice in terms of Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

Information may be available by contacting Police Scotland. Detail on how to make a request is available at –

Freedom of Information - Police Scotland

Having considered your request in relation to reports on data, we are unable to provide you with the information you have requested, as it would prove too costly to do so within the context of the fee regulations.

The current cost threshold is £600 and we estimate that it would cost in excess of this amount to process your request. Therefore, this represents a refusal notice in terms of Section 12 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Excessive Cost of Compliance.

Relevant information related to your request is wide-ranging covering service delivery, performance and workforce. We would be unable to carry out a meaningful search of all the information we may hold within the cost threshold, for example using relevant keywords.

The Authority has assessed that the £600 cost limit within the Act equates to 40 hours of work and so your request would exceed the cost threshold.

To assist, we would point you to the significant amount of reporting to the Authority which is publicly available, as well as recent progress reporting on joint Equalities Outcomes. For ease we have provided links to recent reporting.

Authority Meeting, 25 May 2023 – reporting included an interim report from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Independent Review Group (EDI IRG) (item 6).

People Committee, 31 May 2023 – reporting included Bi-Annual Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report (item 3.3); Sex Equality and Tackling Misogyny Update (item 3.4); and Q4 and Year-end Workforce MI Report (item 4.1).

Policing Performance Committee, 16 March 2023 – reporting included Police Scotland Violence against Women and Girls Strategy (item 2.4); and Quarterly Policing Performance Report – Q3 2022/23 (item 3.1).

Complaints and Conduct Committee, 1 June 2021 – reporting included Police Scotland Professional Standards Annual and Quarterly Performance Report Q4 22/23 (item 3).

Joint Police Scotland and SPA Mainstreaming and Equality Outcomes Progress Report – April 2021-2023

In addition, we would also highlight the following relevant and publicly available information:

Dame Elish Angiolini’s Independent Review of Complaints Handling, Investigations and Misconduct Issues in Relation to Policing: Preliminary Report

Dame Elish Angiolini’s Independent Review of Complaints Handling, Investigations and Misconduct Issues in Relation to Policing: Final Report

Independent review of the employment tribunal judgement in favour of former Police Constable Rhona Malone - Operation FUSTIC Review by the Police Service of Northern Ireland

The independent public inquiry set up to examine the events surrounding the death of Sheku Bayoh, the subsequent investigation and whether race was a factor.