On 26 June the BBC reported that merger plans for the Scottish part of the British Transport Police to be subsumed by Police Scotland have been dropped. New Scottish Government plans involve the oversight of railway policing in Scotland by a new committee consisting of two members drawn from each of the Scottish Police Authority board and the British Transport Police board and meeting four times a year.

This marks the end of a very contentious issue which set the Scottish Government against all the other involved parties. The Justice Secretary, Humza Yousaf, regards the amalgamation as still being a "long-term goal", but hopefully the plan has now been laid to rest.