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Published: 09 April 2025

FOI 2024/25-118 - Officers leaving Police Scotland for jobs with police forces in Australia

Category: FOI

Report Summary

Issued 28 March 2025, this FOI response confirms information on officers leaving Police Scotland for jobs with police forces in Australia is not held by the Scottish Police Authority. Advice is provided that Police Scotland may hold information.

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Request

Your request for information dated 12 March 2025 is copied below.

I would like to request any information held which relates to staffing, where officers have left Police Scotland to take up jobs with police forces in Australia, over the last five years. 

The request includes, but is not limited to: statistics, ranks of officers, minutes of meetings involving any Scottish Police Authority personnel where recruitment efforts by Australian Police forces have been discussed, and transcripts of any video conference calls involving any Scottish Police Authority personnel where recruitment efforts by Australian Police forces have been discussed.  

To be clear: I am not requesting any personal information about individual officers.


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