Report Summary
Issued 22 August, this FOI review overturns a decision in response FOI 2025/26-038 in relation to one redaction applied to the Complaints and Conduct Committee report from February 2025.
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Request
On 25 July 2025 you made the following request for information to the Scottish Police Authority.
Q1. Please supply the Police Conduct Report as discussed at item 13 of the Complaints and Conduct Committee on 27th February 2025 and the same report as discussed on 5th June 2025. Per the below SAR response, it appears that there should be no barrier to this as SPA report that no individual officer can be identified from the report. Please redact only as necessary.
Q2. Given the assurance in the response to SAR130 below, that no individual officer can be identified from Police Conduct Report, please explain why this report is not publicly available, why that part of the meeting is held in private, and if, given these assurances of anonymity, what plans there are to make this information publicly accessible in the future?
In response to your request the Authority provided relevant information, with a number of redactions.
On 4 August 2025 you asked the Authority to review the decision to redact information at Section 5.1.1. of the ‘Police Scotland Additional Conduct Information’ report dated 27 February 2025.
