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Published: 22 May 2026

Benchmarking Progress Update - 12 March 2024

Report Summary

This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of the final update of the Benchmarking Short Life Working Group, detailing the key achievements of the group and outlining how benchmarking and comparative analysis is now embedded in the Police Scotland performance, underpinning ongoing continuous improvement activity.

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Meeting

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Policing Performance Committee - 12 March 2024

Date : 12 March 2024

Location : online


Embedding the Benchmarking Approach

With the key outputs of the SLWG now met the group itself has now concluded and benchmarking activities have moved to business as usual. This will be led by Police Scotland, with support from Authority staff, with comparisons in different areas of focus reported to Policing Performance Committee as part of existing performance and operational reports.

This reporting will focus on what can be learned from other forces performing well in specific areas, to inform continuous improvement. Benchmarking measures will be identified in each refresh of the annual Performance Framework.


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