Category: Justice & Policing

A national centre of excellence is to be established by Police Scotland as part of a new strategy to combat the rising tide of cybercrime. Fifty specially trained officers and…

The first remote jury centre in the UK will go live on Monday with high court proceedings beamed live onto movie screens in Edinburgh. In a ground-breaking innovation for the…

A forty-five per cent budgetary shortfall is slowing the process of transformation for Police Scotland, politicians have heard. A reduction in capital expenditure of an originally planned £246.8 million –…

Digital and IT infrastructure is to be enhanced among the providers of services for domestic abuse victims as part of a £4.25m government funding package. Upgrades to technology as well…

The Students Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) used technology that is not even available to Police Scotland, which has placed a moratorium on its use amid human rights concerns. The…

The roll-out of mobile devices by Police Scotland has freed up more than 400,000 hours of officer time in just one year, transforming policing in communities across the country. The…

One hundred suspects have been arrested in the past six months by Police Scotland in a crackdown on online child abuse. Officers from Police Scotland’s Internet Investigations Unit have prepared…

Scotland’s most senior judge has called for new legislation to address the growing backlog of court cases. The Lord President, Lord Carloway, said measures proposed so far had simply been…

In a tender notice published this week, the authority is inviting bids from software and services suppliers to create a virtual analytics platform, acquire a metadata management product and data…