Breakdown of Safer Communities directorate: FOI release
- Published
- 28 January 2026
- Directorate
- Safer Communities Directorate
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500490009
- Date received
- 21 October 2025
- Date responded
- 17 November 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
"Id like to request your usual good services and ask for a list sub/governances groups or boards on the divisional level for the Safer Communities directorate. These would be groups or boards that brings together external policy stakeholders with the Scottish Government to give strategic oversight of policy development and implementation."
Response
Please see list below:
- Scottish Violence Reduction Unit Governance Board
- Scottish Violence Reduction Unit Strategic Board
- Framework Implementation Group
- Missing People Working Group
- Scottish CONTEST Programme Board
- Scottish Prevent Board
- Scottish Protect & Prepare Board
- Scottish CBRN Working Group
- Scottish CONTEST Steering Group
- Serious Organised Crime Taskforce
- Scottish Strategic Group (our internal governance group to go over topics and arrangements which are led by the Home Office ESMCP Team)
- Mental Health and Policing Partnership Delivery Group
- Scottish Police Consultive Forum (SPCF)
- Stop and Search Short Life Working Group
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Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG