Slammed 'secret meetings' of Scotland's police watchdog to be opened up
Scottish Police Authority (SPA) as part of 81 recommendations.The SPA is tasked with holding Police Scotland to account, including investigating complaints about senior officers. But the quango has been accused of failing to be transparent.Politicians accused SPA management of running it like a “secret society” and likened the organisation to the Kremlin.Last November former lord advocate Dame Elish called on the SPA to “increase public confidence” by publishing more information – including key minutes of private sessions – in a review of police complaints procedures.The oversight body, whose former chairwoman Susan Deacon quit in 2019 amid claims it was “fundamentally flawed”, said it will now implement changes within weeks.