Category: Criminal Justice
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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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Correspondence with the Scottish Police Authority regarding Police Scotland LGBT Allies Toolkit
In October we published an article about the Police Scotland LGBT Allies Toolkit. The article questioned how a scheme that asks officers to ‘evangelise their allyship’ to certain groups...
28th November 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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A perfect storm? Police cuts and hate crime
It was recently reported that in response to severe financial pressure Police Scotland is looking to cut 600 officers and 200 staff in the year ahead. The force is...
30th October 2023
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MBM letter to the Scottish Human Rights Commission
It is almost five years since the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) stated that it intended to review its 2014 Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment Policy. This means that the...
24th October 2023
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‘Evangelise your allyship’: police impartiality and the Police Scotland LGBT Allies Toolkit
On 1 June 2023 Police Scotland posted the following tweet: We submitted a Freedom of Information request for a copy of the Police Scotland LGBT Allies Toolkit, pictured in...
20th October 2023
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Recorded police warnings: the need for transparency and accountability
On 23 July 2023 at a public rally organised by the grassroots feminist group Women Won’t Wheesht, a transactivist punched a 54-year old woman, Julie Marshall. The assault resulted...
10th September 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
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The missing statistic: assessing Scottish Prison Service policy on transgender prisoners
In late 2018 the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) commented in an online media article that it intended to review its Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment policy. Developed over a...
22nd June 2023
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Police Scotland policy on recording rape: an exercise in institutional sexism and misogyny
it is right for me, the right thing for me to do as Chief Constable, to clearly state that institutional racism, sexism, misogyny and discrimination exist… we know, I...
11th June 2023