Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority Policing Performance Committee with an update on the progress and direction of the Policing in a Digital World Programme (PDWP).
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 18 September 2024
Date : 18 September 2024
Location : online
Beyond
In January 2024 ISO 17025 and Digital Forensic Re-Design were combined under one project due to many interdependencies. PDWP have created an updated timeline for ISO 17025 addressing the accreditation deadlines for Aberdeen and resourcing challenges to fulfil our updated commitment. Support to Aberdeen, Inverness and Govan DF Labs in preparation for UKAS assessment is underway. Benchmarking continues against other forces including future resource requirements to support ISO 17025 accreditation.
The Cyber Training and Capability Project internal training team are now fully staffed until 2025. A workshop was held in August 2024 with key business stakeholders to develop next steps regarding the future approach to the digital training landscape. This included future lifetime management including securing further training lots, internal development, resourcing and investment/funding.
In September 2024, PDWP hope to begin the governance journey that describes Police Scotland’s key requirements needed to enhance its current model to investigate and respond to the threat of Fraud. This is supported with key engagement with City of London Police (CoLP) in relation to the new Fraud and Cybercrime Reporting and Analysis Service (FCCRAS).
During the scoping and discovery phase for Fraud, aligning our approach to UK LEA’s response to Cyber and Fraud, PDWP has uncovered an opportunity to make some internal structural changes to support the Fraud investigation model. This work will be considered under the PDWP Cyber Futures workstream.
PDWP continues to support the development of the Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3). SC3 focuses on key areas of incident coordination, cyber exercising and threat intelligence, working with core partners to develop key products that are being shared with the Scottish Public sector and wider. SC3 has just completed a draft of its 3-year strategic plan which is awaiting approval but will provide a roadmap to building on the foundations of the work carried out to date.
The current capability for mobile phone triage is currently under review with benchmarking taking place with other forces across England and Wales. This will be fully detailed in a new DFRD Business Case by the end of the financial year 2025.
