Category: Criminal justice data • Page 3
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Police Scotland statements on its recording policy: A timeline (updated May 2025)
Introduction Since 2019 Police Scotland has made various statements explaining and defending its policy in relation to recording the sex of suspects. This blog brings these together. This includes...
24th September 2024
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Registered sex offenders without a sex
This blog looks at Police Scotland recording policy as it applies to sexual offending statistics, and how Registered Sex Offenders are recorded under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).
19th September 2024
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Is Police Scotland recording policy an ‘operational matter’?
Introduction In June 2021 we lodged a petition with the Scottish Parliament Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee, calling on the Scottish Parliament ‘to urge the Scottish Government to require...
13th September 2024
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‘Promoting a strong sense of belonging’? Police Scotland policy on recording rape does not take women’s interests seriously
Petition on accurately recording rape In June 2021 we lodged a petition with the Scottish Parliament Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee, calling on the Scottish Parliament ‘to urge...
8th September 2024
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Why Police Scotland should review its non-crime hate incident records
Introduction Since the commencement of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, Police Scotland has published weekly statistics on the operation of the Act. The weekly reports also...
1st July 2024
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What Police Scotland data on hate crime reveals about non-crime hate incidents
Introduction Since the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) 2021 (HCPOA) came into force on 1 April, Police Scotland has published weekly data relating to the new law. This...
27th April 2024
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Update on our Scottish Parliament petition on recording sex accurately in cases of rape (January 2024)
Last week the Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee discussed our ongoing petition which calls on the Scottish Parliament ‘to urge the Scottish Government to require Police Scotland, the Crown...
30th January 2024
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Letter to the Convener of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Following today’s parliamentary evidence sesssion on our petition to require Police Scotland to record sex accurately in cases of rape or attempted rape, we sent the letter below to...
6th December 2023
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Giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee
We have been asked to give oral evidence to the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee about our petition on accurately recording the sex of those charged or convicted...
22nd November 2023
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Changing the prison rules
In 2014, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) published its Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment policy, allowing prisoners to be accommodated and searched on the basis of self-declared gender identity....
29th June 2023