Crime prevention

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Services

• Firearms application forms

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

• Surveillance camera code of practice: self assessment tool

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

• 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.

• Required assessment (RA) forms

  RA1, RA2, RA3, RA4, RA5 bilingual forms for completion following a drugs test in custody.

• Renewal of authorisation to use covert human intelligence sources

  This form is to be completed by a member of a public authority when the period of authorisation has expired.

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Guidance and regulation

• Firearms licensing
  • Detailed guide
  • 13 October 2020
  • Home Office
• Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) codes of practice
  • Detailed guide
  • 18 June 2020
  • Home Office
• Counting rules for recorded crime
  • Guidance
  • 19 October 2020
  • Home Office
• Publish an annual modern slavery statement
  • Detailed guide
  • 20 April 2020
  • Home Office
• Police pension reform
  • Detailed guide
  • 16 July 2015
  • Home Office

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News and communications

• Government leads national drive to protect victims of child abuse
  • 17 November 2020
  • Home Office
  • News story
• Market exploration: future policing
  • 19 October 2020
  • Defence and Security Accelerator, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, and Home Office
  • News story
• ACT Strategic
  • 6 October 2020
  • National Counter Terrorism Security Office
  • News story
• HMRC urges universities to warn new students of tax scams danger
  • 5 October 2020
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Press release
• Denton door supervisor saves friend’s brother in car park stabbing
  • 25 September 2020
  • Security Industry Authority
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Online Bullying in England and Wales: year ending March 2020
  • 16 November 2020
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics
• Home Office – Statistics at Home Office
  • 12 November 2020
  • Home Office
  • Statistics
• Evaluation of the Child Trafficking Protection Fund
  • 29 October 2020
  • Home Office
  • Research
• Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables
  • 28 October 2020
  • Home Office
  • Official statistics
• Crime in England and Wales: year ending June 2020
  • 28 October 2020
  • Office for National Statistics
  • National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Firearms safety
  • 24 November 2020
  • Home Office
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 17 February 2021
• Government response to the IICSA's Internet Report
  • 10 November 2020
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Hate crime action plan 2016 to 2020
  • 9 November 2020
  • Home Office, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, and Ministry of Justice
  • Policy paper
• Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act: anti-social behaviour
  • 15 July 2020
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• UK Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Strategy
  • 21 October 2019
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Number of live Corporate Criminal Offences investigations
  • 21 October 2020
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Foi release
• 2020 UK annual report on modern slavery
  • 19 October 2020
  • Home Office
  • Corporate report
• Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s annual report 2019 to 2020
  • 17 September 2020
  • Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner
  • Corporate report
• British Transport Police Fund: statement of accounts 2019 to 2020
  • 11 September 2020
  • Department for Transport and British Transport Police Authority
  • Corporate report
• Economic Crime Strategic Board minutes and agenda: July 2019
  • 4 November 2019
  • HM Treasury and Home Office
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Home Office
• Ministry of Justice
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Attorney General's Office
• Department for Transport

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• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Border Force
• Cabinet Office
• HM Treasury
• Immigration Enforcement
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• Department for Education
• Department of Health & Social Care
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Defence and Security Accelerator
• UK Visas and Immigration
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Northern Ireland Office
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Ministry of Defence
• Public Health England
• Academy for Social Justice
• National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body
• Police Remuneration Review Body
• Department for Work & Pensions
• Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
• Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
• Intellectual Property Office
• Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation HM Treasury
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Review Body on Senior Salaries

• Surveillance Camera Commissioner
• Environment Agency
• National Counter Terrorism Security Office
• Forensic Science Regulator
• Security Industry Authority
• Biometrics Commissioner
• The Charity Commission
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
• Commission for Countering Extremism
• Innovate UK
• Police Advisory Board for England and Wales
• Youth Justice Board for England and Wales