Item 3 is consideration of two petitions. PE1510, by Jody Curtis, on behalf of emergency service and non-emergency service call centres, calls on the Scottish Parliament to undertake a committee inquiry into the closure of police, fire and non-emergency service centres north of Dundee. PE1511, by Laura Ross, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review the decision by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to close the Inverness fire control room.
The Public Petitions Committee referred the petitions to this committee, with a request that we raise the issues highlighted in the petitions at our evidence session with the chief inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the inspector of constabulary on 19 August. Are members content to consider the terms of the petitions during that evidence session? As a courtesy, we could also inform the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing that we are looking at PE1510. Any decision to do that does not mean that the petition will then be closed; it is just that it might be better to wait until then. I invite comments.