Skip to site content Skip to main menu

Tell us whether you accept cookies

Published: 07 November 2025

SPA Audit and Improvement Recommendations Update - 12 November 2025

Report Summary

This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority's Audit, Risk & Assurance Committee with an overview of progress against the SPA Corporate Strategy (2023- 2026), at quarter two, 2025/26; open recommendations from all SPA corporate audit and inspection activity; and two internal audit recommendations allocated to Police Scotland that were reported to ARAC in November 2024 as disputed.

To access the full document please open the PDF document above.

To view as accessible content please use the sections below. (Note that tables and some appendixes are not available as accessible content). 

Meeting

The publication discussed was referenced in the meeting below

Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee - 12 November 2025

Date : 12 November 2025

Location : online


Background

The SPA Corporate Strategy 2023-26 and supporting Implementation Plan was approved by the Board in March 2023. The 2025-26 Delivery Plan underpins the Strategy with 17 activities and 44 actions tracked to support performance reporting.

Progress against completion of the corporate strategy is reported to ARAC quarterly.

Progress against audit and inspection recommendations are routinely reported to ARAC, these are tracked through an action tracking software tool called 4Action.

In addition, other committees may also consider specific updates on progress where relevant to their terms of reference.


Related Publications

The documents below are related by Topic and are the most recently published

Recorded Crime and Official Statistics Accreditation in the UK – Public Briefing

Published: 18 December 2024

Evidence Performance

Green icon representing an eye.

PIRC 6-Stage Process Audit Action & Improvement Plan - 14 November 2024

Published: 11 November 2024

Evidence Performance

Green icon showing representation of two hands joined in shaking motion.

Legal Services Claim Handling - Quarterly Statistical Information Report - Trends and Analysis in litigation - 1 August 2023

Published: 26 September 2024

Evidence Performance

Green icon representing an eye.

SPA Dip Sampling of Police Scotland Complaints - 22 August 2023

Published: 26 September 2024

Evidence Performance