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UK NPM statement on the Committee for the Prevention of Torture’s (CPT) report on their ad hoc Visit to Scotland in June 2025

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The UK NPM welcomes the findings of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), who visited Scotland in June 2025 for an ad hoc, unannounced visit focussing on the treatment of men, women and children in prisons, police custody and secure care. The visit followed two previous visits to Scotland in 2018 and 2019.