Justice Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017

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Justice Sub-Committee on Policing (Report Back)

Agenda item 4 is a report back from the convener of the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing.

The Justice Sub-Committee on Policing met on 12 January 2017 to discuss its forward work programme. I refer members to annex A of paper 6, which gives the details of the issues that the sub-committee is to consider over the next few months. You will see that the sub-committee is to take evidence on the draft stop and search code of practice on 26 January—this coming Thursday—and members of the Justice Committee are more than welcome to attend that meeting or any future meetings of the sub-committee.

The Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee will take evidence from the Auditor General on the morning of Thursday 26 January on Audit Scotland’s 2015-16 audit of the Scottish Police Authority. Members are also more than welcome to attend that meeting. Please let the committee clerks know if you intend to attend that meeting.

The sub-committee now has quite a busy schedule of work until well into the spring. If members have any suggestions of areas of work that the sub-committee could include in its future work programme, please let me know.

I am happy to answer any questions that members may have on the work programme.

Are there any questions for the convener of the sub-committee in general or on the work programme?

I reinforce the sub-committee convener’s point about Thursday’s evidence session. It is not often that we get the opportunity to hear oral evidence on something that is going to come before the committee as the stop and search provisions will. If colleagues have time, it might be worth their coming along to that meeting.

Yes. It will be an important meeting.

We now move into private session. Our next meeting will be on 31 January, when our main item of business will be private consideration of a draft report on the Criminal Finances Bill LCM.