Status of all recommendations

Police Scotland should work with the Scottish Police Federation to agree national guidelines relating to officer deployment at events.

Police Scotland should carry out a comprehensive examination of all additional officers and staff who should be added into the deployment pool for events to reduce the impact on officers within local policing divisions.

Police Scotland should review whether event commanders and event planners would benefit from continuous professional development or refresher training to maintain up to date skills and knowledge and promote a consistent approach across Scotland to the resourcing of events.

Police Scotland should develop a central point for cost recovery, including review, application and audit which would provide consistency across Scotland.

Police Scotland in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service should develop an approach that enhances the information sharing arrangements for offenders who are eligible and being considered suitable for release on home detention curfew giving due regard to the core principles of protecting the public at large, preventing re-offending and securing the successful re-integration of the offender into the community.

Scottish Government in consultation with criminal justice partners and key stakeholders should consider development of national policy on risk factors that assess not only the eligibility of an offender for release on home detention curfew but his / her suitability for release based on the presumption of refusal where the conviction that the person has been sentences for relates to violence, possession of an offensive weapon or having known links to serious organised crime.

Scottish Government in consultation with criminal justice partners and key stakeholders should consider introducing a statutory offence where an offender who breaches his/her home detention curfew licence conditions remains 'unlawfully at large' for a designated period of time.

Police Scotland should ensure a robust process is established in each local policing area where all enquiries carried out police officers and members of police staff are accurately recorded in a clear and appropriately evidenced manner that is available for internal audit and external scrutiny purposes. This would comply with the existing standard operating procedures.