Crime prevention

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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

  Forms for referring potential victims of modern slavery/human trafficking to the national referral mechanism. These forms will be accepted in exceptional circumstances until 29 February 2020.

• 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.

• 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
  • 20 January 2020
  • Home Office
• Counting rules for recorded crime
  • Guidance
  • 1 September 2020
  • Home Office
• Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) codes of practice
  • Detailed guide
  • 18 June 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

28 August 2020 — Press release

Illegal waste activities targeted in Chelmsford, Essex

Environment Agency

• More than 100,000 young people supported as violence reduction units get new funding boost
  • 20 August 2020
  • Home Office
  • News story
• Waste crime taskforce conducts raid on site in Great Harwood, Lancashire
  • 18 August 2020
  • Environment Agency
  • News story
• British Embassy Warsaw launches 'Don't Become a Victim of Modern Slavery' campaign
  • 17 August 2020
  • World news story
• ‘Sobriety tags’ come into force
  • 18 May 2020
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Property crime tables: year ending March 2020
  • 3 September 2020
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics
• Home Office – Statistics at Home Office
  • 27 August 2020
  • Home Office
  • Statistics
• Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables
  • 17 July 2020
  • Home Office
  • Official statistics
• Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2020
  • 17 July 2020
  • Office for National Statistics
  • National statistics
• Nature of fraud and computer misuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2019
  • 19 March 2020
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• 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
• Asset recovery action plan
  • 13 September 2019
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Economic crime plan 2019 to 2022
  • 13 September 2019
  • HM Treasury and Home Office
  • Policy paper
• The use of facial recognition technology by South Wales police
  • 11 September 2019
  • Surveillance Camera Commissioner
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• 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
• Number of live Corporate Criminal Offences investigations
  • 25 August 2020
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Foi release
• Economic Crime Strategic Board minutes and agenda: July 2019
  • 4 November 2019
  • HM Treasury and Home Office
  • Transparency
• 2019 UK annual report on modern slavery
  • 17 October 2019
  • Home Office
  • Corporate report

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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. Department for Transport

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1. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
2. Border Force
3. Cabinet Office
4. HM Treasury
5. Immigration Enforcement
6. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
7. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
8. Department for Education
9. Department of Health & Social Care
10. HM Revenue & Customs
11. UK Visas and Immigration
12. Defence and Security Accelerator
13. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
14. Northern Ireland Office
15. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
16. Ministry of Defence
17. Public Health England
18. Academy for Social Justice
19. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
20. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
21. National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body
22. Police Remuneration Review Body
23. Department for Work & Pensions
24. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
25. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
26. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
27. Intellectual Property Office
28. Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation HM Treasury
29. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
30. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
31. Review Body on Senior Salaries

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