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Published: 18 March 2024

HMICS Assurance Review of Hate Crime - 12 March 2024

Report Summary

This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of progress against Police Scotland’s Hate Crime Improvement Plan which was developed in response to the HMICS Thematic Inspection of Hate Crime in Scotland

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Meeting

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Policing Performance Committee - 12 March 2024

Date : 12 March 2024

Location : online


PURPOSE

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update as to progress against Police Scotland’s Hate Crime Improvement Plan which was developed in response to the HMICS Thematic Inspection of Hate Crime in Scotland.

This plan was shared with HMICS on 3 December 2021 and presented to SPA Policing Performance Committee (PPC) on 9 December 2021. Since this date, the completion target dates have been reviewed in order to ensure the recommendations are fully achieved, to deliver tangible and demonstrable outcomes and robust improvement plan documented.

Agreement was reached at the SPA Policing Performance Committee meeting on 7 June 2022 (Action: PPC 20220607-002) that Police Scotland should review, amend and report on an updated plan. This updated plan was initially presented in September 2022, with the most recent version presented and attached.

Members are invited to discuss the content of this paper and appendix.


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