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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
These documents explain the changes we are making to the law through the Policing and Crime Act.
Briefing notes, commentaries from Amanda Spielman and data about providers that we have visited or spoken to during the interim phase of our return to routine inspection.
Report a crime by calling the police or Crimestoppers if you want to remain anonymous
A list of additional courtrooms set up to support the justice system.
If you're a UK resident and have been injured because of a violent crime abroad, you can usually apply for compensation
The National Crime Squad (NCS) was a British police organisation which dealt mainly with organised and major crimes.
Information and resources including crime applications, assessment appeals and duty solicitor work.
The expansion of testing on arrest across England and Wales has seen nearly 100,000 drug tests on suspects whose behaviour was believed to have been driven by their drug abuse.
Who can check your criminal record for a role, the application process and how to recognise a genuine certificate.
How to request a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for a potential employee: types of DBS check, how to request a check, how much it costs, how long it takes.
The Criminal Records Bureau is now part of the Disclosure and Barring Service
This collection of reports compiles statistics from data sources across the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in England and Wales, to provide a combined perspective on the typical experiences of different ethnic groups.
A guide to applying for a payment from the Hardship Fund. The fund helps low paid workers who are victims of crime.
Information relating to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act which received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022.
This is a collection of serious and organised crime local partnerships bulletins.
This collection contains immigration staff guidance on enforcement and processes.
What happens if you're charged with a crime. Find out about the hearing, when you can be released on bail and being put in custody (on remand).
Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR), a longitudinal cohort study of adult prisoners sentenced to between one month and four years in England and Wales in 2005 and 2006.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is an independent public body that reviews possible miscarriages of justice in the criminal courts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland and refers cases to the appeal courts. CCRC is an executive non-departmental public...
This series brings together documents relating to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Police Committee.
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