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This means that if the Scottish Parliament refuses to approve the first draft code that is laid, there would be a period during which there is still no code in place.
Dr Genevieve Lennon, Scottish Institute of Policing Research (SIPR) told the Committee that whilst a statutory code “is symbolically important”, it would be strengthened by being a discipline code, which would require some reworking of the current code.
I put on record the fact that some CPGs might have struggled with some of the code’s requirements because of the number of ministerial changes that occurred in the reporting period.
The revised code of practice replaces the code of practice on covert human intelligence sources issued by the Scottish Ministers on 28 November 2014 and brought into force on 2 February 2015.
The Committee considers that this would enhance the opportunity for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Code, in line with the importance of the Code as set out above, by requiring both a pre-scrutiny Parliamentary consultation phase on the proposed draft Code, and a vote to approve the final draft Code before it could be issued.