Guidance and regulation

Licensing guidance, good practice on firearms law, and forms for applying for approvals under the law.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 7 March 2024

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 codes of practice regulate police powers and protect public rights.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 20 December 2023

These rules help to ensure that crimes are recorded consistently and accurately.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 15 April 2024

Information to help you identify if your organisation needs to publish a modern slavery statement and best practice guidance on producing a statement.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 28 July 2021

The Open Call is looking for innovative ideas to improve the defence and security of the UK. Your idea could be a concept, product or service, at various levels of maturity.

• From: Defence and Security Accelerator
• Updated: 18 April 2024

The notice of rights and entitlements sets out a person's rights while in police detention and is issued in accordance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act Code of Practice C, paragraph 3.2.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 20 August 2019

Describes the signs that someone may be a victim of modern slavery, the support available to victims, and the process for determining whether someone is a victim.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 22 February 2024

Guidance on referring potential victims of modern slavery/human trafficking to the national referral mechanism.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 21 September 2023

Disruption tactics for those working to safeguard children and young people under the age of 18 from sexual and criminal exploitation.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 1 September 2022

An updated code was laid before Parliament on 16 November 2021 and came into effect on 12 January 2022.

• From: Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
• Updated: 3 March 2022

Extradition processes and agreements between the UK and other countries, role of the Secretary of State, High Court and Supreme Court.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 15 November 2023

Information for competent authorities abroad (and in the UK) about obtaining evidence within the UK (or abroad) to assist in criminal investigations or proceedings.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 15 November 2023

Guidance on the powers that the police, local authorities and other local agencies can use to tackle antisocial behaviour.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 27 March 2023

Government guidance for organisations on how to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in their business or supply chains.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 13 December 2021

Find out how to get support if you or someone you know is a victim of antisocial behaviour.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 27 March 2023

How to apply for security funding to protect your place of worship against hate crime.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 22 December 2023

Guidance on powers of entry and how they are created or modified, using the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 3 December 2018

Home Office guidance on how applications are handled to change names on official documents.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 21 June 2019

Turnaround is a youth early intervention programme led by the Ministry of Justice.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 28 December 2023

To help our investigations report all HMCTS-related suspicious phone calls, emails, and text messages.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Updated: 31 July 2023