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Data tables to complement the stops and searches briefing.
Policing minister challenges police to double retrospective facial recognition searches to track down known offenders by May 2024.
The police have to follow strict rules if you're arrested, questioned or charged with a crime - you can get legal advice at a police station
Search for decisions from patent hearings
Fees for our services, for example fees for searches and requests for official copies.
This good practice guide provides advice to local authorities and personal searchers on providing access to property information held by local…
How Business e-services customers can apply for an official search of part with priority through the portal.
Search the Individual Insolvency Register for details about bankruptcy orders, Debt Relief Orders, Individual Voluntary Arrangements, and restrictions orders and undertakings
Your rights and security searches, body scans and privacy rules if you're disabled or taking medication aboard aircraft
Advice to persons who have been searched or persons legally entitled to be provided with a copy of a search record
Guidance explaining the powers schools have to screen and search pupils, and to confiscate items they find.
What to do if you think you are a victim of identity theft or fraud, and what signs to look out for.
Information on how quickly we will process your application.
Local authorities, police and NHS staff can find out about the information we have on our registers in England and Wales and how to ask for it.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
How to use tools such as Content Data and Google Analytics to improve your content's search engine optimisation (SEO) and get data on how users are interacting with your content.
Codes of practice in connection with the detention, treatment and questioning of persons under the Terrorism Act 2000 and National Security Act 2023.
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