Justice Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017

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Justice Sub-Committee on Policing (Report Back)

The next agenda item concerns feedback from the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing on its meeting of 25 May. Following the verbal report, there will be an opportunity for brief comments or questions. I refer members to paper 7, which is a note by the clerk, and invite Mary Fee to provide that feedback.

The Justice Sub-Committee on Policing met on 25 May, when it agreed and published its report on the governance of the Scottish Police Authority. The sub-committee shares the very serious concerns about the governance of the Scottish Police Authority that were raised by the Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee. It wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice with its views, and that letter was also copied to Her Majesty’s inspector of constabulary to assist Derek Penman in his urgent review of the openness and transparency of the Scottish Police Authority. The sub-committee will consider that report next month.

The next meeting of the sub-committee is scheduled for Thursday 1 June, when it will take evidence from Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority on the Auditor General’s 2015-16 audit of the Scottish Police Authority, and the review of Police Scotland’s i6 programme.

As members have no questions, that concludes the meeting. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 6 June, when we will continue our evidence taking on the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill.