Committee
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 04 October 2023
04 Oct 2023 · S6 · Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
New Petitions
National Dashcam Safety Portal (PE2013)
Can we write to Police Scotland to ask how it intends to fund improvements to the ways in which digital evidence is submitted and, in particular, where the funding will come from to implement the digital evidence-sharing capability programme? I wonder whether I might make an additional suggestion. My understanding is that dashcam technology is available throughout police forces in Wales and England. Scotland therefore appears to be the laggard. Reference has been made to the Welsh experience and the technology company Nextbase, which apparently provides some services free of charge, whereas the Scottish Government and Police Scotland tend to labour the costs of this. Plainly, there is a slight contradiction in the evidence that is before us. Can we write to the UK Government or to police forces in England and Wales or their representatives to try to elicit information on their experience? They have implemented the technology already. How much did it cost them, what have the benefits been and what has been their experience and evaluation of it? It seems to me that, since they have done it, we should learn from them.
In the same item of business
The Convener
Con
Agenda item 5 is consideration of new petitions. In case people joining us to follow our proceedings this morning have a petition that we are considering I w...
Fergus Ewing
SNP
Can we write to Police Scotland to ask how it intends to fund improvements to the ways in which digital evidence is submitted and, in particular, where the f...
The Convener
Con
I invite the clerks to give some consideration as to whom we might write in order to fulfil that objective. I am quite content with the suggestion.
Foysol Choudhury
Lab
Data protection and privacy could be affected as well. We see quite a lot of stuff online. People post footage of cyclists and people in private cars. What m...
The Convener
Con
We could add that question to our inquiry to those who have implemented the technology elsewhere, in order to learn how they have overcome those particular c...
The Convener
Con
I should say that I have just been advised that Marie McNair was not able to join us after Alex Neil’s evidence, so she has not been with us for consideratio...