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The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Guidance and resources to resolve common fingermark visualisation queries and help forensic laboratories achieve and maintain ISO 17025.
Guidance for practitioners involved in the recovery of evidential fingermarks.
Who is eligible to claim Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, because of Dupuytren’s contracture affecting the hand, and how to claim.
Letter from Dr Rowan Hillson.
This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
The Home Office has carried out investigations on new uncirculated Bank of England banknotes to ascertain which are the most effective to visualise fingermarks.
Advice on carrying out fingermark visualisation processes on receipts produced on paper that releases bubbles of ink when heated.
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