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DDL search listings: 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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)

Guidance; Digital Investigation & Intelligence APP
The digital policing learning programme was created to for officers and staff to update their knowledge regarding digital intelligence and investigation. The programme helps explains the use and...

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

Guidance; Critical Incident Management APP
Police have a duty to respond to every incident reported in an appropriate way and in a timely manner. A critical incident (CI) is defined as: any incident where the effectiveness of the...

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Published: 01/01/2013
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; National Decision Model APP
Decision-making in the Police service can be very complex. Police officers most often have to make decisions in very difficult circumstances and situations and may not have all the necessary or...

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Published: 01/12/2014
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; Armed Policing APP
There are occasions that require the use of firearms by Authorised Firearms Officers (AFOs) in conflict situations. This response is a well-established and necessary approach to managing conflict....

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Published: 01/01/2013
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; Investigation APP
An investigation is undertaken when a crime has been reported and a police officer investigates the circumstance following all lines of enquiry of the situation to determine if a crime has been...

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

Guidance; Engagement & Communication APP
Police engagement and communication is key to the success of community policing and having an effective presence in the area the police serves in. Developing and maintaining healthy and positive...

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Published: 01/01/2017
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; Intelligence Management APP
Intelligence is information collected and gathered for the purpose of taking action. This process is continuous and critical to effective policing operations that allow for tactical options and...

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Published: 28/05/2019
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; Management of Police Information (MoPI) APP
This Authorised Professional Practice (APP) provides guidance to forces on meeting the requirements of the Management of Police Information (MoPI) Code of Practice in relation to the...

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Published: 06/05/2020
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; Detention & Custody APP
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and the associated Codes of Practice set out the legislation and standards for dealing with people who come into contact with...

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Published: 01/01/2018
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Authoring body: College of Policing (CoP)

Guidance; Civil Emergencies APP
Civil emergencies require a professional and structured response to all emergencies, this includes Police, fire and ambulance services and must meet the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. These services...

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

Guidance; Major Investigation and Public Protection APP
The success of any major incident coordination requires an organised, professional and methodical approach. The Major Room Incident (MIR) is critical to this coordination as this is where all...

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

Guidance; Covert Policing APP
Undercover policing is a covert tactic used by the Police to obtain evidence and intelligence. It is also used to detect crime and disorder and help maintain public safety. Undercover...

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

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