Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority's Audit, Risk & Assurance Committee with an overview of progress against the SPA business plan (2023/24); and open recommendations from all SPA corporate audit and inspection activity.
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Meeting
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Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee
Date : 02 August 2023
Location : online
Further detail
In Q1 2023/24 79 of the corporate strategy 79 milestones where due to be achieved; 75 of these milestones were achieved (95%).
Since the last report to ARAC there has been no new audit recommendations identified for SPA Corporate.
In April 2023 HMICS published their Assurance Review of the Scottish Police Authority Forensic Toxicology Provision. There are a total of twenty five recommendations arising from this review. The majority are to be jointly actioned by various parties. Eight recommendations include actions for SPA corporate to address.
Action plans to address the recommendations have been developed in collaboration with Police Scotland and Forensic Services and have recently been approved by HMICS.
