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Circular amending Annex F made under the Police Regulations 2003 to implement a new pay structure for chief constables and deputy chief constables.

• Updated: 16 May 2024

• 006/2024: Annex F (Amendments) - Pay (accessible)

  ANNEX F (AMENDMENTS) REGULATION 24 PAY The following determination “Annex…

The Court of Appeal has increased the sentence of a dangerous sexual predator after it was referred under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.

• Updated: 16 May 2024

Staff dedicated to helping neurodivergent offenders are now in place in all public prisons in England and Wales.

• Updated: 16 May 2024

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) requires banks and other businesses in the regulated sector to report knowledge or suspicion of money laundering to the National Crime Agency (NCA).

• Updated: 15 May 2024

Plans to make it easier and less traumatic for victims of child sexual abuse to bring historic claims through the civil courts have been unveiled by the government today (15 May 2024).

• Updated: 15 May 2024

Measures will help protect law-abiding cyclists, pedestrians and other road users while ensuring justice is done.

• Updated: 15 May 2024

Steph Roberts-Bibby, the CEO of the Youth Justice Board (YJB), talking about the YJB's new values - what they are, why we have them and how they will be embedded.

• Updated: 15 May 2024

The government will invest a further £4 million to tackle the scourge of knife crime, the Home Secretary has announced.

• Updated: 15 May 2024

The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has today summoned the Chinese Ambassador Zheng Zeguang following allegations of foreign interference on UK soil, contrary to the National Security Act 2023.

• Updated: 14 May 2024

The government will place 6 new synthetic opioids under the strictest level of control.

• Updated: 14 May 2024

Legal and technology professionals on opposite sides of the world are set to benefit from bolstered connections between the UK and Australia through the UK Government’s GREAT Legal Services campaign’s latest programme of eve…

• Updated: 13 May 2024

Prisoners who break the rules while behind bars face new community payback-style punishments like repair work and litter picking, under tough prison rules to be set out this week.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk congratulated winners at the Times Law Awards 2024.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

Farmer Derek Dyer contaminated a private water supply and polluted a stream after a slurry store built from farmyard manure collapsed.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

More female offenders than ever recorded before are in work 6 months after their release from prison as a direct result of government action – cutting crime and keeping the public safe.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

The Secretary of State for Justice has approved that the tenure of Colin Allars, as Chair of Gov Facilities Services Limited, can be extended.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

Vile abusers who rape a child will have their own parental responsibilities automatically removed under new laws.

• Updated: 10 May 2024

International law must remain in lockstep with the changing 21st century world and the needs of citizens or face irrelevance the Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk, will stress to the G7’s justice leaders today (9 May 2024).

• Updated: 9 May 2024

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kerry Smith as our new Assistant Chief Constable (ACC).

• Updated: 9 May 2024

First-of-its-kind counselling and 24/7 support for jurors following difficult cases.

• Updated: 8 May 2024