Crime prevention

Get emails for this topic

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.

See more services in this topic

Guidance and regulation

• Firearms licensing
  • Detailed guide
  • 30 November 2022
  • Home Office
• Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) codes of practice
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 February 2023
  • Home Office
• Home Office Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers & staff
  • Guidance
  • 11 September 2023
  • Home Office
• Publish an annual modern slavery statement
  • Detailed guide
  • 28 July 2021
  • Home Office
• Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) Open Call for Innovation
  • Guidance
  • 18 September 2023
  • Defence and Security Accelerator

See more guidance and regulation in this topic

News and communications

• Nitrous oxide to be illegal by end of the year
  • 12 September 2023
  • Home Office
  • News story
• Commissioner's letter of resignation
  • 8 September 2023
  • Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
  • Correspondence
• Reopening of the Security Rapid Impact Open Call
  • 5 September 2023
  • Defence and Security Accelerator
  • News story
• 2023 survey of law enforcement use of uncrewed aerial vehicles
  • 1 September 2023
  • Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
  • News story
• Police pledge to pursue any reasonable lead to solve more crime
  • 31 August 2023
  • Home Office and College of Policing
  • News story

See more news and communications in this topic

Research and statistics

• Property crime tables
  • 22 September 2023
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics
• Law enforcement use of uncrewed aerial vehicles: 2023 survey
  • 1 September 2023
  • Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
  • Research
• Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables
  • 20 July 2023
  • Home Office
  • Official statistics
• IICSA: report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
  • 9 June 2023
  • Home Office
  • Independent report
• Local authority survey 2022: initial analysis
  • 10 May 2023
  • Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
  • Research

See more research and statistics in this topic

Policy papers and consultations

• Machetes and other bladed articles: proposed legislation
  • 30 August 2023
  • Home Office
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 07 June 2023
• OPC consultation on biometric information: commissioner response
  • 24 August 2023
  • Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
  • Policy paper
• Investigatory Powers Act 2016 – codes of practice
  • 11 August 2023
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022: equality statements
  • 2 August 2023
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Rape Review Progress Report: Two years on
  • 10 July 2023
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Policy paper

See more policy papers and consultations in this topic

Transparency and freedom of information releases

• ACE Annual Review 2022-23
  • 13 September 2023
  • Accelerated Capability Environment
  • Corporate report
• Number of live Corporate Criminal Offences investigations
  • 27 July 2023
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Foi release
• Education, children’s social care and offending
  • 20 July 2023
  • Department for Education and Ministry of Justice
  • Transparency
• Domestic Abuse Commissioner's strategic plan
  • 28 March 2023
  • Home Office
  • Corporate report
• Ministry of Justice’s evidence to the Senior Salaries Review Body: 2023
  • 21 February 2023
  • Ministry of Justice and Senior Salaries Review Body
  • Corporate report

See more transparency and freedom of information releases in this topic

Organisations

• Home Office
• Ministry of Justice
• Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
• HM Prison & Probation Service
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

Show more organisations

• HM Treasury
• Attorney General's Office
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Border Force
• Cabinet Office
• Immigration Enforcement
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• Defence and Security Accelerator
• Department for Transport
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Department for Education
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Ministry of Defence
• UK Visas and Immigration
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Northern Ireland Office
• Department for Work & Pensions
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body
• Police Remuneration Review Body
• Review Body on Senior Salaries
• Department for Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Disclosure & Barring Service
• Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
• Homes England
• 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

• Environment Agency
• Security Industry Authority
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Forensic Science Regulator
• Accelerated Capability Environment
• Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
• The Charity Commission
• Probation Service
• Commission for Countering Extremism
• Parole Board
• Police Advisory Board for England and Wales
• Youth Justice Board for England and Wales