Following Dame Elish Angiolini’s independent review of complaints handling, investigations and misconduct issues regarding policing in Scotland, the Scottish Government commissioned Alma Economics to report on the public’s views on the recommendations set out by Dame Elish.  

Our team of researchers analysed the responses to an extensive public consultation run by the Scottish Government. We carried out descriptive analysis of the closed-format questions across respondent types, as well as thematic analysis of the open-format questions in order to gain insight into the reasoning behind respondents’ answers.

Our work helped clarify and communicate the public’s views and opinions through our final and summary reports. These will inform the Scottish Government’s policy decisions on the implementation of Dame Elish’s recommendations and influence the future of policing in Scotland.

➥ Our report can be found here.