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• 30 August 2010
  Commissioner instructs police to reconsider complaint
  The Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland, Professor John McNeill, has instructed Fife Constabulary to carry out a reconsideration of a complaint arising from its investigation into alleged offences by the applicant’s son.
• 3 August 2010
  Public needs evidence that police are learning lessons, says Commissioner
  Reviews from the PCCS published on Monday 2 August contain some good news for the police. Of the 30 heads of complaint the Commissionerfound that 22 had been handled reasonably. At the same time he went on to identify four learning points for the police.
• 27 July 2010
  Learning Point & Quality Matters
  As part of his commitment to secure efficient and effective complaint handling,the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland has published the first issue of "Learning Point".
• 22 July 2010
  Commissioner to audit "complaints capability" of Scotland's police boards
  Scotland's eight police boards and authorities are to be audited by the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland.
• 21 July 2010
  PCCS procurement announcement
  The Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland is seeking to procure professional services for the provision of internal auditing services, for the period October 2010 – March 2014.
• 24 June 2010
  Mixed picture for police complaints in Scotland
  In his latest set of reviews published today (24 June 2010), Scotland's Police Complaints Commissioner Professor John McNeill, found that 16 out of 26 complaints were handled reasonably by the police, but makes four specific recommendations for action
• 15 June 2010
  Complaints Commissioner signs agreement with MoD Police in Scotland
  The Ministry of Defence Police is the latest policing body to come within the remit of Professor John McNeill, the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland.
• 20 May 2010
  Commissioner praises parents for helping change how police respond to road traffic incidents in rural areas
  Since 2003 the parents of a cyclist killed in a road traffic incident have criticised Strathclyde Police about its handling of the incident and its aftermath. They asked the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland to review how Strathclyde Police hand
• 5 May 2010
  Police Complaints Commissioner appointed to Glasgow Caledonian University
  Scotland's Police Complaints Commissioner John McNeill has been appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor to the Institute for Society and Social Justice Research at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).
• 28 April 2010
  Commissioner calls for “unreserved apology” from Tayside Police
  Tayside Police have been asked to apologise "unreservedly" to a member of the public for comments made by one of its civilian members of staff involved in the investigation of an alleged wildlife crime by two former workers on a country estate in Tayside.