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Police Scotland to ‘pull plug’ on problem-hit £60m IT system

From ‘The Scotsman’ 24/02/2016 Police Scotland is said to be preparing to tear up a contract for the delivery of a multi-million-pound IT [...]

Refer every complaint to watchdog, say Scottish Labour

Article in ‘Police Oracle’ regarding complaints about Police and the role of the PIRC: Public and officers’ lack of faith in the [...]

Chair of Police Scotland oversight body labels police officer target “very inflexible approach” for long term

Written by Alan Robertson on 22 February 2016 in ‘Holyrood’ Police Scotland’s civilian oversight body will embark on a major review [...]

Chief Constable pledges new collaborative era

The new boss of Police Scotland, Philip Gormley, has told MSPs that his approach to the job will be about “collaboration and trust”. He [...]

Paying back to society

‘Overwhelmingly positive’ response to community sentences. People on Community Payback Orders (CPOs) carried out more than 1.3 million hours of [...]

One in 35 drivers over limit during festive period

Fewer people caught drink driving but small minority still ignoring the law. New statistics released today show that one in 35 drivers stopped during [...]

Strategic Police Priorities

The Scottish Government has today launched its broadest ever initiative to gather views on what the people of Scotland would like from their police [...]

Draft Budget 2016/7 – scrutiny

The Justice Committee is seeking written views from relevant bodies on the approach taken to allocating budgets and achieving savings by Police [...]

Domestic Abuse Statistics Published

£3m funding for services announced. The levels of domestic abuse reported in Scotland have increased by 2.5% over the past year. The figures [...]

AAIB report on Clutha tragedy

The Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) have today published their report into the Clutha Helicopter Crash in November 2013. Michael Matheson, [...]