Strategic planning
Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority have a Joint Strategy for Policing. It is called Policing for a safe, protected and resilient Scotland and was agreed in April 2023.
It sets out the kind of police service we want to be and how that will make our service better for people in Scotland.
Other strategies explain how we will change things like buildings, cars and ways people can contact us.
Every year we publish an Annual Police Plan.
This explains what we will do over the year ahead.
To read these documents, click on the title below.
For local policing priorities visit our Your Community section.
- Annual Policing Plan 2026-27 (PDF)
- Annual Policing Plan 2026-27 (Word)
- Annual Police Plan Delivery Plan 2026-27 (Word)
- Three-year Business Plan
- Strategic Policing Plan for Scotland 2026-2030 (PDF) - hosted on SPA website
- EDI Mainstreaming and Equality Outcomes Progress Report 2023-25 (PDF)
- EDI Mainstreaming and Equality Outcomes Progress Report 2023-25 (Word)
- Joint Equality Outcomes for Policing 2025 (PDF)
- Joint Equality Outcomes for Policing 2025 (Word)
- Equality and Diversity Employment Monitoring Report 2023-24 (PDF)
- Equality and Diversity Employment Monitoring Report 2023-24 (Word)
- Cyber Strategy (PDF)
- Cyber Strategy (Word)
- Corporate Parenting Plan
- Digital Strategy (PDF)
- Digital Strategy (Accessible PDF)
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (PDF)
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (Accessible Word Doc)
- Estate Strategy
- Fleet Strategy (PDF)
- Fleet Strategy (Word)
- Environmental Strategy (PDF)
- Environmental Strategy (Word)
- Public Contact and Engagement Strategy (Word)
- Public Contact and Engagement Strategy (PDF)
- Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy 2023 (PDF)
- Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy 2023 (Word)
Archive documents
- Annual Policing Plan 2025-26 (PDF)
- Annual Policing Plan 2025-26 (Word)
- Annual Police Plan Delivery Plan 2025-26 (Word)
- Joint Strategy for Policing 2023-26 (PDF)
- Joint Strategy for Policing 2023-26 (Word)
- Annual Policing Plan 2024-25 (PDF)
- Annual Policing Plan 2024-25 (Word)
- Annual Police Plan 2024-25 EqHRIA (Word)
- Annual Policing Plan 2023-24 (PDF)
- Annual Policing Plan 2023-24 (Word)
- Annual Policing Plan 2022-23 (PDF)
- Annual Policing Plan 2022-23 (Word)
- Equality and Diversity Employment Monitoring Report 2021-22 (PDF)
- Equality and Diversity Employment Monitoring Report 2021-22 (Word)
- EDI Mainstreaming and Equality Outcomes Progress Report 2021-23 (PDF)
- EDI Mainstreaming and Equality Outcomes Progress Report 2021-23 (Word)
- Joint Equality Outcomes for Policing 2021 (PDF)
- Joint Equality Outcomes for Policing 2021 (Easy Read version PDF)
- Equality Outcomes 2017-21 (PDF)
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Mainstreaming Report 2021 (PDF)
- Employment Monitoring 2019-20 (PDF)
- Police Mainstreaming Equality Outcomes (Easy Read version PDF)
- Gaelic joint EDI Mainstream Equality Outcomes Progress Report (Word)
- Annual Police Plan 2021-22 EqHRIA (PDF)
- Annual Policing Plan 2021-22 (PDF)
- Annual Policing Plan 2020-21 (PDF)
- Annual Police Plan 2020-21 EqHRIA (PDF)
- Strategic Police Plan 2020-21 EqHRIA (PDF)
- People Strategy 2018-21 (PDF)
- Annual Police Plan 2019-20 (PDF)
- Annual Police Plan 2019-20 EqHRIA (PDF)
- Annual Police Plan 2018-19 (PDF)
- Annual Police Plan 2018-19 EqHRIA (PDF)
- Annual Police Plan 2017-18 (PDF)
- Annual Police Plan 2017-18 EqHRIA (PDF)
- Joint Strategy for Policing 2020-21 (PDF)
- Policing 2026 Strategy (PDF)
- Corporate Parenting Plan 2021-24 (PDF)
- Corporate Parenting Plan 2021-24 (Word)