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      PDS Technology & Architecture principles
      These Technology & Architecture Principles are designed to provide Police Digital Service (PDS) with a standard set of general rules and guidelines to inform and guide the procurement, design,...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 06/08/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service
      Principles
      MOU Digital Evidence sharing between the Police and CPS v1.1
      This MOU supports and underpins the existing arrangements in place between the CPS and the Relevant Police Force for the provision of evidential and disclosable unused material and sets out the...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 05/12/2024
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Policy
      NCSP Decommissioning standard v1.0
      This standard is intended to provide a framework of controls to support the secure decommissioning of police information systems.
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/05/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Privileged Access Management standard v1.1
      This standard defines the requirements and best practice for privileged access management which should be adopted to manage elevated access consistently and securely across national policing IT...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/05/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Password Standard v1.3
      This Standard supports the principles set out in the National CSP, providing detailed guidance to those implementing and managing PDS & policing systems. This Standard applies to all passwords...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/05/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      Artificial Intelligence Risk Assessment v1.0
      This document provides a structured approach to assessing and managing security risks associated with AI adoption in law enforcement. It ensures that AI technologies are evaluated at every stage of...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/05/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Guidance
      NCSP Digital Forensics guideline v1.0
      This guideline provides information on how to preserve the integrity of digital evidence which supports the investigation cyber incidents.
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/05/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Guidance
      Police Security Classification Guidelines v1.1
      This guidance is to assist members of the policing community of trust to correctly classify and protect information assets in line with UK Government Security Classification Policy. This guidance...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/05/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital; Service (PDS)
      Guidance
      NCSP People Security Management v1.1
      This standard is intended to guide the reader through the process of securely managing personnel and embedding security at all stages of the employee lifecycle.
      Standard  | 
      Published: 03/03/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Electronic Communications Standard v1.1
      This standard supports the policy set out in the National Community Security Policy, providing requirements for those designing, building and running electronic communications services within...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 03/02/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Physical and Environmental Security Management Standard v1.1
      This Standard sets out the Physical and Environmental Security measures and considerations to be used within policing. This standard will outline key guidance and advice that should be acknowledged...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 03/03/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Security Testing Standard v1.0
      This standard describes approaches to delivering comprehensive security testing (using a range of attack types) to support security and risk compliance monitoring. It supplements National Community...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 03/03/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      National Police Information Security Risk Framework
      This framework is to ensure that all security risks are identified, assessed, and managed in accordance with best practice in order to facilitate improved governance. It is mandatory for all...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/04/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      System Development – Secure by Design (SbD) Standard
      This standard outlines the functions within the Secure By Design (SbD) process, aligned to project stages, to ensure a consistent approach to cyber security is achieved throughout a system’s...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/02/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Systems Management v1.1
      This standard defines the requirements which, when applied, will assist with the secure management of systems and networks. This standard adheres to the National Policing Community Security Policy...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/02/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      Overseas IT Access Guideline
      This guidance describes best practice risk management controls for accessing Policing ICT resources whilst abroad. It also describes the circumstances when forces can make a local decision or when...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/03/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      Information Compliance using Microsoft Purview
      This guideline is a baseline for Policing in use of Microsoft Purview from a Information Compliance; oversight and measurement perspective
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/03/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Bluetooth Guidance Document v1.7
      This guideline provides audiences with background information concerning Bluetooth technology and guidance on how it can be suitably and securely deployed within the Law Enforcement environment....
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/03/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Guideline: INFORMATION TRANSFER
      Information transfer is the process of moving information from one location to another. Policies and processes are required to protection information during this process. Any activity involving the...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/02/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Network Security v1.2
      This standard supports the policy set out in the National Community Security Policy, providing requirements for those designing, building and running network services on behalf of national...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/02/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Vulnerability Management v2.0
      This standard supports the policy set out in the National Community Security Policy, providing requirements for those designing, building and running IT services, managing threats and...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 03/12/2024
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Secure By Design
      This guideline provides guidance on the principles and application of the System Development Standard (Secure By Design) methodology.
      Procurement  | 
      Published: 17/04/2024  | 
      Authoring Body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      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...
      Procurement  | 
      Published: 23/03/1921  | 
      Authoring Body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
      NCSP Application Management Standard v1.0
      This Standard is intended to guide the reader through the process of securely managing business applications both internally developed and externally sourced, regardless of whether locally...
      Procurement  | 
      Published: 05/02/2024  | 
      Authoring Body: Police Digital Service (PDS
      Business Continuity v1.0
      This Standard specifies the minimum requirements regarding business continuity. It aims to provide PDS (Police Digital Service) and policing with clear direction to implement a business continuity...
      Procurement  | 
      Published: 05/02/2024  | 
      Authoring Body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      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...
      Procurement  | 
      Published: 25/08/2022  | 
      Authoring Body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Cyber Security Architectural Principles
      This document provides all National Policing and its partners with a clear set of security architectural principles, which are the foundation to build, design and implement...
      Procurement  | 
      Published: 16/10/2023  | 
      Authoring Body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Cyber Security: Asset management
      Step 3 from the 10 steps to Cyber Security covers asset management, ensuring you know what data and systems you manage, and what business need they support. Asset management encompasses the...
      Procurement  | 
      Published: 23/09/1921  | 
      Authoring Body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
      Application Development
      Abstract 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...
      Procurement  | 
      Published: 23/04/2021  | 
      Authoring Body: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
      NCSP Monitoring and Evaluation of Force Information Security Incidents Guideline
      This guideline defines the type of cyber and information security incidents which are required to be reported for monitoring and evaluation purposes and the applicable categories
      Standard  | 
      Published: 03/02/2025
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Guidance
      NCSP Secure By Design (SbD) Guideline V1.1
      This document provides detailed guidance to support the National Community Security Policy (NCSP) system development (Secure by Design SbD) standard. Secure by Design as a methodology has been...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/01/2025
       | 
      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Guidance
      NCSP Technical Security Management Standard v1.1
      This Standard specifies the minimum requirements regarding technical security management. It describes the requirements to enable members of the community of trust to build and operate an effective...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 02/12/2024
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Physical Asset Management Standard v1.1
      This standard aims to ensure that physical assets are acquired securely, configured properly, maintained regularly, and disposed of safely and securely, while ensuring the confidentiality,...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 02/12/2024
       | 
      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Internet connection guideline v1.0
      This guideline covers recommendations for the commissioning and use of internet connections, with a specific focus on the requirements of the Law Enforcement Community Network (LECN).
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/01/2025
       | 
      Authoring body: Police Digital Service
      Guidance
      NCSP Information Management v1.1
      This standard defines the requirements to implement Information Management as mandated in the National Community Security Policy. It encompasses the management of policing information within the...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/11/2024
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      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Electronic Conferencing Guideline v1.0
      This guideline provides the policing community with advice on the use of communication software such as e-conferencing.
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/12/2024
       | 
      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Cyber Incident Management Standard v1.2
      This Standard specifies the minimum requirements regarding cyber threat and incident processes and actions. It aims to provide members of the policing community with clear direction to manage...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/09/2024
       | 
      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Cryptography Standard v2.1
      This standard sets out the Cryptographic Algorithms to be used within policing. A list of algorithms is provided initially followed by applications and the associated cryptography required for each...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/12/2024
       | 
      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Application Management Standard v1.1
      This standard is intended to guide the reader through the process of securely managing business applications, both internally developed and externally sourced, regardless of whether locally...
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/11/2024
       | 
      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
      NCSP Management of High Risk Applications standard v1.1
      This standard outlines the minimum requirements and controls that must be met to ensure the secure management of applications identified as high risk.
      Standard  | 
      Published: 01/10/2024
       | 
      Authoring body: Police Digital Service (PDS)
      Standards
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