Mr Farrell said—
“If the PIRC had the statutory power to investigate officers deployed on mutual aid or whatever the policing basis might be, that would be helpful, because it could do so against officers from elsewhere as well as Scottish officers at the same time, and we would have one investigation instead of more than one".iCriminal Justice Committee, Official Report, 15 May 2024, col 57.
The Committee welcomes the proposal to enable PIRC to carry out an investigation of a serious incident involving an officer from another jurisdiction who was operating in Scotland at the time of the incident.