Report Summary
This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of the national roll out of Proportionate Response to Crime
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 19 March 2025
Date : 19 March 2025
Location : online
Proportionate Response to Crime
The concept of a PRTC process is not new to policing in Scotland and is not a policy of non-investigation.
When an incident is reported to Police Scotland it is subjected to a THRIVE process, where an assessment of Threat, Harm, Risk, Investigative opportunity, Vulnerability and Engagement is undertaken – where any vulnerability is identified the police will always attend.
Under the Contact Assessment Model (CAM) crimes with low associated threat, harm, risk or vulnerability can be recorded remotely via telephone following a THRIVE assessment. This is called Direct Crime Recording (DCR) and is one of the resolution options available to Contact, Command and Control Division Service Advisors.
PRTC is an additional process, over and above a THRIVE assessment, where resolution team officers and staff carry out a structured initial investigative assessment of a crime when it is reported to the police. This process allows a much earlier assessment around proportionate lines of enquiry.
Assessing the existence, or otherwise, of proportionate investigative opportunities within reported crimes already takes place on a daily case-by-case basis across the country. The PRTC process moves that assessment to an earlier point within the crime investigation process.
