Report Summary
This correspondence sets out the Scottish Police Authority’s views on the Criminal Justice Committee’s Stage 1 Report on the Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) Bill.
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Publication of responses to recommendations
The Criminal Justice Committee made the following recommendation at paragraph 473:
“We recommend that the Bill is amended to include a presumption that the PIRC publishes the responses by Police Scotland and the SPA to its recommendations for them in complaint handling review reports, unless there are exceptional circumstances.”
The Authority supports this recommendation, subject to data protection considerations. As the PIRC’s complaint handling reviews are generally published in anonymised form, the Authority would expect the same approach to be taken to the publication of responses to recommendations.
