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DDL search listings: POLE Data Standards Catalogue v1.0
The intended purpose of this standard is to promote interoperability and improve the data quality of systems by converging on a common set of POLE data definitions used within Policing. POLE data...

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Published: 25/08/2022
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Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)

Standards; NPCC Digital Imaging and Multimedia Procedure (Version 3)
This document covers digital multimedia, inclusive of picture, video and audio in the proper capture and handling of digital data for police applications. This represents best practice to benefit...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC)

Guidance; UKAS Guidance on the Application of ISO/IEC 17025 Dealing with Expressions of Opinions and Interpretations 2017
Laboratories within the UK who wish to demonstrate that they operate to a quality system, are technically competent and are able to generate technically valid results must now meet the ISO/IEC...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)

Policy; Guidance on Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Performance, Assessment and Optimisation
This guidance document suggests how to set up, maintain, monitor and maximise the performance of an ANPR system. It is written for law enforcement ANPR operatives and commercial installers on...

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Published: 01/06/2020
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Authoring body: Home Office

Guidance; ACPO Good Practice Guide for Digital Evidence (Version 5)
This ACPO guide contains a set of golden principles for management of digital evidence and guidance on each stage in the evidence lifecycle: Plan, Capture, Analyse...

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Published: 01/03/2012
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Authoring body: Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)

Guidance; Cloud Security Principles
Published by the National cyber security centre, this guidance document provides details and context on the following 14 cloud security principles. 1. Data in transit 2. Asset protection and...

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Published: 17/11/2018
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Authoring body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Principles; Forensic Science Regulator Information Legal Obligations (Issue 8)
The role of the forensic science regulator is to advise the Government and the criminal justice system on quality standards in the provision of forensic science. Recommend new requirements for new...

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Published: 30/04/2020
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Authoring body: Forensic Science Regulator (FSR)

Standards; Government Security Classification (GSM)
This document describes how HM Government classifies information assets into OFFICAL, OFFICIAL SENSITIVE, SECRET and TOP SECRET to ensure information can be protected but also efficiently shared....

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Published: 01/05/2018
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Authoring body: Cabinet Office

Policy; Joint Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) & Police Principles for Redaction
This document contains the agreed principles for redaction of information from digital (and physical) material by police for legal or security reasons. Material includes statements,...

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Published: 01/08/2021
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Authoring body: National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) / Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)

Principles; Records Management Code of Practice
The Code provides high-level standards for information and records management (in the form of seven principles), as well as other supporting standards, such as personnel and organisational...

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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Standards; Facing the Camera - Guidance on police use of overt CCTV and facial recognition to locate persons on a watchlist in public
This code of practice issued by the Secretary of State (regulated by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner) under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (PoFA) covers police forces in England &...

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Published: 01/11/2020
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Authoring body: Surveillance Camera Commissioner (SCC)

Principles; National Policing Digital Strategy 2020-2030
The National Policing Digital Strategy sets out a new digital ambition for UK policing. It presents a set of tangible digital priorities and outlines the key data...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)

Principles; Criminal Justice System Exchange Data Standards Catalogue (Version 6)
The CJS Data Standards Catalogue is a collection of data standards used by Criminal Justice Organisations in England & Wales to support interoperability between their different ICT systems. If...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: Criminal Justice System (CJS) Exchange Product Board

Reference Data / Templates; Retrieval of Video Evidence and production of working copies from digital CCTV Systems (Version 2.0)
Digital CCTV installations vary greatly in terms of the recording methods as a result of varying solutions with different capabilities and functionality which are used to capture picture and video...

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Published: 01/01/2008
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Authoring body: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

Guidance; Recruitment Guidance - Candidate Management
Ensuring that the right candidates are selected for policing roles is essential. Employing the right selection process is essential to make the most efficient use of money, time and resources and...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: College of Policing

Guidance; European Pool against Organised Crime (ePOC IV) Version 1.0
European Pool against Organised Crime (EPOC IV) was introduced in 2004 as the Eurojust Case Management System. It facilitates the secure storage of case-related personal data, the exchange of...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: Reference data service platform

Reference Data / Templates; Operations Command and Control APP
The Command and Control (C&C) solution is the incident management and deployment solution for police officers responding to incidents reports by the public. Command and control is the authority...

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Published: 01/01/2021
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; Post-Incident Procedures following Death or Serious Injury APP
There are incidents that take place where the police respond to a serious injury/incident or where there is a deceased or where at a later time the victim dies. This APP – describes the...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; All vehicles (VEH01)
All vehicles (VEH01) is a dataset of all licensed and registered vehicles in Great Britain and the UK, produced by Department for Transport. It contains licensed vehicles, registered vehicles for...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: Department for Transport (DfT)

Reference Data / Templates; IDENT1
This document should be used in reference to the appropriate legislation, such as the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012: DNA & Fingerprint Provisions IDENT1 is the UK’s nationals automated...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: Home Office

Reference Data / Templates; ICT Asset Recovery Standard 7.0
Asset Disposal & Information Security Alliance (ADISA) is an organisation designed to improve risk management and data protection within business processes for IT asset retirement and disposal....

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: Asset Disposal & Information Security Alliance (ADISA)

Standards; Cyber Essentials guidance
Most cyber attacks are conducted by unskilled individuals and are very basic in nature and cyber security is an important aspect to guard any organisation from cyber attacks. There are five...

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Published: 01/01/2021
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Authoring body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Principles; End User Device (EUD) Security Principles (Version 1.0)
The End User Device (EUD) Security Principles sets out 12 core guidance principles that underpin the safety and security of using devices that serve the purpose of working remotely. The twelve...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Principles; End User Device (EUD) Security Guidance 2
Guidance for organisations deploying a range of end user device platforms as part of a remote working solution. Modern smartphones, laptops and tablets provide users with great flexibility and...

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Published: 01/01/2018
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Authoring body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Guidance; Secure Sanitisation of Storage Media (Version 1.0)
Data sanitisation is a key aspect to any organisations dealing with data storage media and who want to ensure that unauthorised parties do not gain access to their data. Data sanitisation has to...

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Published: 13/02/2020
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Authoring body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Guidance; 10 Steps to Cyber Security
This guidance is designed to help organisations protect themselves in cyberspace and best practises for cyberspace security. It relays the task of defending your networks, systems and...

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Published: 11/05/2021
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Authoring body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Guidance; Application Development
This guidance gives practical advice on the secure development, procurement and deployment of generic applications. There are three types of common security issues: Secure data handling ...

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Published: 01/01/2018
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Authoring body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Guidance; End user device (EUD) Security Guidance Windows 10 1809
This guidance covers the deployment of a range of end user device platforms for the secure configuration of Windows 10 1809. Risk owners and administrators should agree a configuration which...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Guidance; End User Device (EUD) Security Guidance
The End User Device (EUD) Security Principles sets out 12 core guidance principles that underpin the safety and security of using devices that serve the purpose of working remotely. The twelve...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: National Cyber security Centre (NCSC)

Principles; Defence Industry Security Notices
Industry Security Notices (ISNs) A Industry Security Notice (ISN) is an official document that tells people in industry about important instructions, guidance or other information relating...

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Published: 01/01/2021
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Authoring body: Government Digital Services (GDS)

Guidance; ISO/IEC 27031:2011 IT Security Techniques — Guidelines for Information and Communication Technology Readiness for Business Continuity
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2011
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27033-1:2015 IT Security Techniques — Network Security — Part 1: Overview and Concepts
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2015
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 IT Service Management — Part 1: Service Management System Requirements
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2018
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27018:2019 IT Security Techniques — Code of Practice for Protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in Public Clouds acting as PII Processors
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27004:2016 IT Security Techniques — Information Security Management — Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis and Evaluation
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2016
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27032:2012 Information Technology — Security Techniques — Guidelines for Cybersecurity
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2012
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO 22301:2019 Security and Resilience — Business Continuity Management Systems — Requirements
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27013:2015 IT Security techniques — Guidance on the integrated implementation of ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 20000-1
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2015
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27034-2:2015 IT Security techniques - Application Security - Part 2: Organisation Normative Framework
This document provides a framework for application security. ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the...

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Published: 01/01/2015
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27002:2013 IT Security techniques - Code of Practice for Information Security Controls
This document informs the implementation of controls within an information security management system based on ISO 27001. ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the...

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Published: 01/01/2013
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27001:2013 IT Security techniques — Information Security Management Systems — Requirements
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2013
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27003:2017 Information Technology — Security techniques — Information Security Management Systems — Guidance
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2017
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO/IEC 27000:2020 IT Security techniques - Information Security management systems - Overview & Vocabulary
The International Organisation Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: International Organisation Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; National Intelligence Model
The National Intelligence Model (NIM) is a well-established model within the policing world that was established in 2000 by the National Criminal Intelligence service (NCIS) and adopted by...

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Published: 01/01/2005
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Authoring body: Home Office

Standards; ISO/IEC 27003:2017 Preview
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are...

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Published: 01/01/2017
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Authoring body: International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)

Standards; ISO 17025:2017 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. BSI provide the...

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Published: 01/01/2017
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Authoring body: International Standards Organisation (ISO)

Standards; Criminal Justice System: Data Standards Forum Guidance
An agreed and designed common data standards are used by the Criminal Justice System, ICT suppliers to support ICT communications between systems used by Criminal Justice Organisations (CJO) to...

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Published: 17/12/2020
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Authoring body: Ministry of Justice (MOJ)

Guidance; Security Policy Framework for HMG Organisations
This Framework describes the Cabinet Secretary and Official Committee on Security expectations of how HMG organisations and third parties handling HMG information and other assets will apply...

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Published: 01/01/2018
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Authoring body: Government Digital Service (GDS)

Policy; Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC)
The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is an email standard that used in email transactional activity. It helps validates a senders identity using Sender...

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Published: 01/01/2016
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Authoring body: Government Digital Service (GDS)

Standards; Securing Government Email
This guidance applies to all email domains that public sector organisations run on the internet. It also helps ensures that public sector organisations exchanges email securely with other public...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: Government Digital Service (GDS)

Guidance; DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) verifies an email’s domain and ensures it has not been tampered with in transit. The receiving email service can then filter or reject email that fails...

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Published: 01/01/2016
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Authoring body: Government Digital Service (GDS)

Guidance; Encoding Characters
UTF-8, an encoding form for Unicode character sets, for government digital services and technology encodes all Unicode characters without changing the ASCII code. Unicode is based...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: Government Digital Service (GDS)

Policy; Technology Code of Practice
The Technology Code of Practice is a set of criteria to help government design, build and buy technology. Technology Code of Practice should be used for all technology projects and programmes and...

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Published: 01/01/2019
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Authoring body: Government Digital Service (GDS)

Guidance; Surveillance Camera Code of Practice
The purpose of the code will be to ensure that individuals and wider communities have confidence that surveillance cameras are deployed to protect and support them, rather than spy on them. ...

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Published: 01/06/2013
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Authoring body: Home Office

Policy; Auditing Principles - Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Statutory auditors should adhere to the highest ethical standards and should be subject to professional ethics. This Directive aims at high-level to bring about harmonisation of statutory audit...

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Published: 01/01/2006
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Authoring body: European Parliament

Principles; Criminal Intelligence Manual for Analysts
Intelligence is information (raw data) worked, evaluated in context to its source and reliability to create added value and meaning to its user (Information + Evaluation = Intelligence). Analysis...

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Published: 01/01/2011
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Authoring body: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Guidance; National ICT Strategic / Architectural Principles
The National ICT Strategic Principles sets out architectural rules and guidelines in fulfilling its ICT strategies across the force. It helps to define the underlying general rules for the use and...

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Published: 14/07/2017
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Authoring body: National Police Technology Council (NPTC)

Principles; Resource Description Frameworks (RDF) for web development
The standards referred to by W3C are community generated standards, last reviewed by the National Standards Assurance Board in May 2021. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international...

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Published: 01/01/2020
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Authoring body: W3C

Guidance; Cybersecurity Framework NIST (Version 1.1)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), covers a wide range of topics including Bioscience, Chemistry, Advanced Communications, Cybersecurity, Energy, Materials, Nanotechnology,...

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Published: 01/01/2018
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Authoring body: National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

Guidance; Mobilisation APP
With the Police responding to critical and complex incidents, sometimes these incidents may require resources that go beyond the capacity and capability of the Police force. Some of these incidents...

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Published: 01/01/2014
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

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