Status of all recommendations

Police Scotland should strengthen its engagement process with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) around undercover operations, including notification, operational parameters, special measures and disclosure requirements.

Police Scotland, in partnership with the national undercover working group (NUWG), should establish a formal process for the reciprocal notification of cross border undercover operations which includes legend building.

The Scottish Government should review the legal basis for the current agreement between Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Authority and NHS Scotland to deliver healthcare and forensic medical services. This review should inform the nature and need for any refreshed national Memorandum of Understanding between the parties.

Police Scotland should work with the partners responsible for delivering the Archway service in Glasgow and the West of Scotland and strengthen its current governance arrangements to ensure the service is adequately resourced and meets the needs of the communities it serves.

The Scottish Government should engage with relevant agencies and stakeholders and bring forward proposals for establishing dedicated healthcare facilities across Scotland to meet both the healthcare needs of victims of sexual crime and the necessary forensic requirements. This should be informed by research and current best practice.

The Scottish Government should consider formally issuing the newly proposed national standards for the delivery of forensic medical examination for victims of sexual violence to all NHS Boards. These standards should be supported by a framework of publicly reported quality indicators and monitored through an effective audit and inspection regime.

Police Scotland should work with NHS Boards to urgently identify appropriate healthcare facilities for the forensic medical examination of victims of sexual crime. The use of police premises for the examination of victims should be phased out in favour of healthcare facilities as soon as is practicable.