Status of all recommendations

Police Scotland should improve CCTV viewing equipment and conditions for officers at Lerwick and Stornoway custody centres to ensure the location, number, and quality of screens is sufficient to provide clear imaging of detainee cells, including when displaying multiple camera feeds.

Police Scotland should review the potential risks associated with the lack of available modern fingerprint identification equipment at ancillary custody centres and address the deficits identified.

Police Scotland should ensure that policy relating to single officer custody centre staffing is adhered to and strictly underpinned by appropriate supervisory scrutiny, with the rationale and authority for such decisions consistently recorded on the National Custody System.

Police Scotland should ensure that staffing of ancillary custody centres, and the care and welfare of detainees therein, is intrusively supervised to ensure essential care and welfare standards are maintained and checks are accurately and timeously recorded on the National Custody System.

NHS Highland and Police Scotland should ensure that all infection and prevention control and health and safety risks are identified and managed during building works that will affect healthcare facilities in custody centres.

NHS Highland and Police Scotland should ensure that all infection and prevention control and health and safety risks are identified and managed during building works that will affect healthcare facilities in custody centres.

NHS Highland and Police Scotland should ensure that custody staff involved in the checking of controlled drugs have had appropriate training.

NHS Shetland and Police Scotland should ensure that the treatment room in the custody centre is maintained to a high standard to allow for effective decontamination.