Status of all recommendations

Police Scotland should examine the potential for shower installation at the centres to provide appropriate washing facilities for detainees.

Police Scotland should ensure that chlorine-based cleaning products are available for cleaning in line with national guidance.

Police Scotland should identify an area where clinical waste and sharps bins can be stored securely until they are collected.

Police Scotland should improve leadership behaviours across the organisation to ensure that officers and staff work in a culture that is supportive, collaborative and welcomes challenge.

Police Scotland should develop and deliver a set of actions to address the fundamental inequalities between officers and police staff, and frontline policing and other national/specialist functions.

Police Scotland should ensure that the probationer training syllabus is more reflective of actual frontline demand and the Competency and Values Framework, to allow officers to feel equipped to deal with the realities of policing.

Police Scotland should prioritise the completion of an organisational maturity assessment of continuous improvement, organisational learning and best value involving all improvement-related functions within the organisation and use this to inform a unified approach.