Justice Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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Justice Sub-Committee on Policing (Report Back)

Item 4 is feedback from the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing on its meeting of 25 October. Following the verbal report, there will be an opportunity for brief comments or questions. I refer members to paper 4, which is a note by the clerk. I invite John Finnie to provide the feedback.

At the meeting on 25 October, we agreed our draft report on the pre-budget scrutiny. We also considered our work programme and agreed that, at some future date, particularly given today’s scrutiny, we would invite the chief constable and the chair of the Scottish Police Authority to give evidence.

We requested a written update from Police Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service on the review of the justice services that they can provide to migrant communities. Leading on from that, it is our intention to take evidence at a future meeting on Police Scotland’s role in the immigration process.

We also agreed to write to Police Scotland, the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office on Police Scotland’s proposed roll-out of digital device triage systems, which are often referred to as cyberkiosks. There are several issues around that and we agreed to monitor the implementation of Police Scotland’s digital data and ICT strategy and policing 2026, as well as the significant sums of money that are connected to that proposal.

If members have no questions or comments, that concludes the public part of the meeting. At our next meeting, on 6 November, we will continue with our post-legislative scrutiny of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012.