Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority's Audit, Risk & Assurance Committee with an overview of open recommendations from all SPA corporate audit and inspection activity.
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Meeting
The publication discussed was referenced in the meeting below
Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee - 6 February 2025
Date : 06 February 2025
Location : online
Report detail
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.
Audit & inspections recommendations progress (Appendix A)
Below is a summary of changes since the last report to ARAC: -
• In total 9 recommendations have been successfully closed
o 2 HMICS recommendations have been closed,
Recommendation 14 arising from the Thematic review of policing mental health in Scotland; and
Recommendation 11 arising from the Thematic Inspection of organisational culture in Scottish policing.
o 7 recommendations arising from the Internal Audit of Risk Management have also been closed.
• No new recommendations have been identified.
An additional slide has been included to demonstrate the progress being made by SPA Corporate with addressing the 17 areas for development identified by HMICS through the Strategic review of the Scottish Police Authority completed in 2024.
