Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority Policing Performance Committee with an overview of the key milestones within Police Scotland’s Three-Year Business Plan Bi-Annual Report 2025/26.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 16 September 2025
Date : 09 December 2025
Location : online
Background
Strategic planning arrangements for policing in Scotland are laid out in the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012. The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) is responsible for developing a Strategic Police Plan for policing that reflects the Scottish Government’s national outcomes, strategic police priorities and justice strategy.
Police Scotland is responsible for producing an Annual Police Plan (APP) that sets out the arrangements to deliver against the Strategic Police Plan.
A commitment was made in the Annual Police Plan (APP) 2024/25 to develop an integrated long-term plan to further inform the next phase of transformation of the service. To guide us through this, the Chief Constable set out our long-term 2030 Vision.
The vision outlines our ambitions for the future of policing in Scotland, putting the delivery of safer communities, less crime, supported victims and building a thriving police workforce at the heart of everything we do. This has been supported by the creation of the Three-Year Business Plan. The first planning cycle runs from April 2024 – March 2027.
The APP 2025/26 will support the delivery of the agreed year two milestones of the three-year plan.
