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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.

• Significant disappearance and theft reporting form

  A form to record details of explosives precursors or poisons that are lost or stolen.

• 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
  • 21 April 2021
  • 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
  • 23 April 2021
  • Home Office
• Publish an annual modern slavery statement
  • Detailed guide
  • 6 May 2021
  • Home Office
• Change of name guidance for official documents
  • Guidance
  • 21 June 2019
  • Home Office

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News and communications

• Circular 002/2021: The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2021
  • 21 April 2021
  • Home Office
  • Correspondence
• Sobriety tags launched in England to tackle alcohol-fuelled crime
  • 31 March 2021
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Press release
• GPS tags to hunt burglars and cut theft
  • 17 March 2021
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Press release
• Circular 001/2021: Antique firearms
  • 11 March 2021
  • Home Office
  • Correspondence
• Five arrested following seizure of prescription-only and unlicensed medicines in the West Midlands
  • 10 March 2021
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables
  • 13 May 2021
  • Home Office
  • Official statistics
• Crime in England and Wales: year ending Dec 2020
  • 13 May 2021
  • Office for National Statistics
  • National statistics
• Sexual offences in England and Wales overview: year ending March 2020
  • 18 March 2021
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics
• Children's online behaviour in England and Wales: year ending March 2020
  • 9 February 2021
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics
• Crime in England and Wales: year ending September 2020
  • 3 February 2021
  • Office for National Statistics
  • National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Draft codes of practice issued under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002: amendments to codes to reflect the Criminal Finances Act 2017 in Northern Ireland
  • 22 March 2021
  • Home Office
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 23 January 2021
• Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021: overarching documents
  • 13 May 2021
  • Home Office and Ministry of Justice
  • Policy paper
• Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021: equality statements
  • 13 May 2021
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Economic crime plan 2019 to 2022
  • 4 May 2021
  • HM Treasury and Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy
  • 22 January 2021
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Economic Crime Strategic Board minutes and agenda: 17 February 2021
  • 4 May 2021
  • Home Office and HM Treasury
  • Transparency
• 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

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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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• Border Force
• HM Treasury
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Cabinet Office
• Immigration Enforcement
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Department for Education
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Defence and Security Accelerator
• Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• UK Visas and Immigration
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Northern Ireland Office
• Public Health England
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Ministry of Defence
• 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