Status of all recommendations

Police Scotland should ensure that risk is correctly evaluated, addressed and recorded to ensure a clear correlation between risk assessment and care plans.

Police Scotland should ensure that improvements are made to the quality and consistency of record keeping at the centres.

Police Scotland should examine the potential for shower installation at the centres to provide appropriate washing facilities for detainees.

Police Scotland should improve leadership behaviours across the organisation to ensure that officers and staff work in a culture that is supportive, collaborative and welcomes challenge.

Police Scotland should develop and deliver a set of actions to address the fundamental inequalities between officers and police staff, and frontline policing and other national/specialist functions.