Who We Are

The Scottish Police Authority is independent of both the Scottish Government and policing. It is the primary governance body for policing in Scotland, and was established as a public body on 1 April 2013 by the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012. It was set up to hold the Chief Constable to account; promote, support and oversee improvement in policing. It is also responsible for the management and delivery of Forensic Services in Scotland and Independent Custody Visiting Scotland.

In this section, find out more about the Authority’s priorities, the Board and the Leadership team.

Who We Are

What We Do

The Scottish Police Authority is responsible for maintaining policing. It has four specific areas of responsibility:

promoting the policing principles

supporting continuous improvement

keeping policing under review

holding the Chief Constable to account.

This section tells you in outline what the Authority does.

What We Do

Complaints

Are you dissatisfied with the service you have received from policing in Scotland?

The Scottish Police Authority, Police Scotland and the Police Investigations and Reviews Commissioner (PIRC) all have a role to play in considering complaints about policing in Scotland.

In this section, find out who to direct your complaint to. We also welcome written communication in Gaelic (see our Gaelic Language Plan).

Complaints

Published: 30 August 2022

HMICS & SPA Independent Custody Visitors Service - Recommendations on Custody - 9 March 2021

Category: Reports

Topic: Estate Performance Workforce

Commitee: Policing Performance Committee

Keywords : COVID CJSD

ITEM 8 PS Report On Actions To Address HMICS And SPA ICVS Recommendati.. (pdf, .11MB )

Report Summary

This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of the custody recommendations of HMICS & SPA Independent Custody Visitors Service .

The purpose of this paper is to provide an updated progress report on all outstanding HMICS recommendations from 2018/ 2019 Inspections and key issues highlighted within the ICVS Annual report 2019/20.

Meeting

The publication discussed was referenced in the meeting below

Policing Performance Committee

Date : 09 March 2021

Location : online

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Related Publications

The documents below are related by Topic and are the most recently published

Custody Update - 26 August 2020

Published: 06 September 2022

Estate Performance Workforce

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Performance Framework Update - 8 June 2021

Published: 31 August 2022