Status of all recommendations

Police Scotland should set out a transparent process for the provision of organisational design support including how demand analysis is used to inform decision making concerning officer and staff numbers and calculate the demand and capacity imbalance at an organisational level.

Police Scotland should further develop its performance reporting framework to better integrate demand information and analysis and provide improved transparency at local level.

Police Scotland should further promote demand products, including direct input and support to divisional management teams, regarding their use and benefits, as well as setting out the role, responsibilities and authority of the Demand and Productivity Unit and Analysis and Performance Unit in providing support and guidance.

Police Scotland should ensure consistency and compatibility (not requiring mandatory compliance) in revised tasking and co-ordinating processes and the associated use of demand products across all local policing divisions.

The Scottish Police Authority and Police Scotland should commit to further development of the demand forecasting approach to support medium to longer term planning and decision-making.

Police Scotland, in its development of the Full Business Case for the Analysis and Performance Unit re-design needs to include proposals for further development of the demand approach and the Demand and Productivity Unit itself.

Police Scotland should review the profile of hate crime in strategies and plans, given that it is not currently identified as a standalone strategic priority for the force.

Police Scotland should ensure the national policy direction for hate crime links up with the local delivery and response to hate crime.