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Services

• Firearms application forms

  Firearms application form, the form to vary a firearm certificate and guidance notes.

• Modern slavery victims: referral and assessment forms

  Refer potential victims of modern slavery/human trafficking to the national referral mechanism.

• Surveillance camera code of practice: self assessment tools

  Find out how well your organisation complies with the principles of the surveillance camera code of practice.

• Duty to notify the Home Office of potential victims of modern slavery

  Guidance on the duty to notify the Home Office of potential victims of modern slavery, and form MS1: notification of a potential victim of modern slavery.

• Record deletion guidance and application form

  Guidance for chief police officers when considering applications for the early deletion of DNA profiles, fingerprint records and Police National Computer records.

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Guidance and regulation

• Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) codes of practice

  Detailed guide

  21 August 2018

  Home Office

• Counting rules for recorded crime

  Guidance

  2 July 2018

  Home Office

• Firearms licensing

  Detailed guide

  28 June 2018

  Home Office

• Surveillance camera code of practice
  • Guidance
  • 28 October 2014
  • Surveillance Camera Commissioner
• Contacts database for guidance on modern slavery reporting
  • Guidance
  • 15 October 2018
  • Home Office

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News and communications

20 October 2018 — Press release

£5 million fund to deter young people from gang and knife crime

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

1. Home Office reopens fund to help communities tackle hate crime
   • 19 October 2018
   • Home Office
   • News story
2. Combining efforts to fight common threats in Western Balkans
   • 18 October 2018
   • World news story
3. Home Office tells business: open up on modern slavery or face further action
   • 18 October 2018
   • Home Office
   • News story
4. Fall in moped crime as multi-agency taskforce produces results
   • 16 October 2018
   • Home Office
   • News story

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Research and statistics

• Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables
  • 18 October 2018
  • Home Office
  • Official statistics
• The scale and nature of fraud: a review of the evidence
  • 16 July 2018
  • Home Office
  • Research
• Review of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013
  • 11 December 2017
  • Home Office
  • Research
• Football-related arrests and banning order statistics, England and Wales, 2000 to 2001 season
  • 23 November 2017
  • Home Office
  • Official statistics
• Football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales: season 2016 to 2017
  • 23 November 2017
  • Home Office
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Pregabalin and gabapentin: proposal to schedule under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 15 October 2018

  Home Office

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 22 January 2018

• Police 'stop and search' powers 9 September 2018

  Home Office

  Open consultation

  Closing date 22 October 2018

• Hate crime action plan 2016 to 2020
  • 16 October 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Home Office, and Ministry of Justice
  • Policy paper
• Investigatory Powers Act 2016 – codes of practice
  • 11 October 2018
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Construction and the Modern Slavery Act: Tackling exploitation in the UK
  • 9 October 2018
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• 2018 UK annual report on modern slavery
  • 18 October 2018
  • Home Office
  • Corporate report
• HMRC report of non-qualifying regulatory provisions 2017 to 2018
  • 4 July 2018
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Corporate report
• 2017 UK annual report on modern slavery
  • 16 October 2017
  • Home Office
  • Corporate report
• Independent anti-slavery commissioner’s annual report 2016 to 2017
  • 16 October 2017
  • Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner
  • Corporate report
• Nil response to an FOI about the Proceeds of Crime Act
  • 31 July 2017
  • Civil Nuclear Police Authority and Civil Nuclear Constabulary
  • Foi release

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Organisations

1. Home Office
2. Ministry of Justice
3. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
4. Attorney General's Office
5. Border Force

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1. Department for Transport
2. Cabinet Office
3. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
4. Immigration Enforcement
5. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
6. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
7. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
8. Department for Education
9. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
10. HM Treasury
11. Northern Ireland Office
12. UK Visas and Immigration
13. Defence and Security Accelerator
14. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
15. Department for International Development
16. HM Revenue & Customs
17. National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body
18. Police Remuneration Review Body
19. Department for Work & Pensions
20. Department of Health & Social Care
21. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
22. Intellectual Property Office
23. Ministry of Defence
24. Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation HM Treasury
25. Review Body on Senior Salaries

1. Surveillance Camera Commissioner
2. Biometrics Commissioner
3. The Charity Commission
4. Forensic Science Regulator
5. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
6. HM Prison Service
7. Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner
8. National Counter Terrorism Security Office
9. Police Advisory Board for England and Wales
10. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales