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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 laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Dstl exploits the latest in robotics and AI to create effective and trustworthy uncrewed platforms and autonomous systems for the UK’s security and defence.
Blaise Metreweli, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service on how SIS is keeping the UK safe in a world where the rules of conflict are being rewritten.
Electric bikes meeting the EAPC regulations can be ridden on the road without being taxed, licensed or insured.
Information pack covers both snatch and stealth theft and provides a profile of incidents, lessons learnt and examples of prevention campaigns.
Statistics from the 2010/11 British Crime Survey (BCS).
Review techniques to create synthetic datasets that mimic the characteristics of a real dataset but remove or obscure any private or sensitive information
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