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Open Referral UK is an open data standard in use by Local Government. This standard establishes a consistent way of publishing and describing information for councils, to ensure the data is effectively used and shared for the benefit of local communities and services (https://www.localdigital.gov.uk/)

ISO 17020:2012 specifies requirements for the competence of bodies (including police forces) performing inspection and for the impartiality and consistency of their inspection activities, this specifically relates to forensic practitioners conducting examinations at scenes of crime.

This manual has been produced by the NPCC Data Protection, Freedom of Information, information Sharing and Disclosure Portfolio Group on behalf of the NPCC. It is updated and adapted to reflect decisions made by the NPCC, views of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (where appropriate) and the evolution of the legislation as it is interpreted, challenged or reviewed.

Note that this manual has not yet been updated to reflect the legislative changes arising from The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc)(EU Exit) Regulations 2019 as amended by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc)(EU Exit) Regulations 2020.

The manual should be regarded as a document that both helps to create an environment across the police service in which compliance can be achieved, and as a means of providing guidance in areas of police business where the Act is regularly applied.

The manual contains a wide variety of information including:

• Breakdown of governance and responsibilities
• Definitions
• General processing (GDPR & DPA Part 2)
• Comparison between General Processing and Law Enforcement obligations
• Law Enforcement processing (Part 3 of DPA)
• Intelligence Service processing (Part 4 of DPA)
• Assessing data protection compliance
• The Commisioner, enforcement & offences
• Case studies
• Wide variety of appendices including
  • Template DPIA
  • Template National data processing contract
  • Template information sharing agreement
  • Template Data Protection policy 

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 misuse of devices and applications and how they appear in the policing world. 

The programme’s aim is to ensure that all staff are:

• confident facing situations where there is a digital element

• competent in identifying and carrying out the actions required by those circumstances

• able to ensure they are compliant in their actions.

The Digital Intelligence and Investigation project will deliver learning and knowledge resources that will ensure that all new and serving officers acquire the digital skills they need to undertake investigations effectively.  

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 may require the need of other partner agencies, other specialist skillsets and equipment and thus would need to be effectively managed and coordinated. Mobilisation is the process which supports mutual aid, at the local, regional or national level.

The National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) is responsible for the mobilisation of police assets, including general policing, operations and crime business areas. A lead force will be responsible for resourcing nationally-led crime enquiries. NPoCC should be the initial point of contact for any mobilisation requirements as it can provide advice and national coordination.

It is important to note that this a challenging area of work, particularly when the length of the investigation is unknown and mobilising crime assets is a new and emerging business field (mutual aid) for the Police service.

ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organisation to deal with particular fields of technical activity. In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.

This document was created to provide guidance on the requirements for an information security management system (ISMS) and provides recommendations, possibilities and permissions.

The following areas are very important for ISMS:

• understanding the organisation’s needs and the necessity for establishing information security policy and information security objectives;

• assessing the organisation's risks related to information security;

• monitoring and reviewing the performance and effectiveness of the ISMS

• practising continual improvement

The ISMS also has key components such as policies, defined responsibilities, documentation and management processes pertaining to policy establishment, planning, implementation, operation, performance assessment, management review and improvement.

This document informs the creation of auditing systems.

With many organisations now wanting to combine a number of management systems into one, there has been awareness to also combine auditing capabilities into one for these management systems. As a result the international standard BS EN ISO: 19011:2011 has created this standard to provide organisations the knowledge for auditing modern management systems, the principles and guidance to ensuring they deliver a high standard of auditing capabilities and that organisations do not fail which could have damaging effects such as losing out on contracts, certifications, and operational efficiency.

Organisations can save vast amount of time, money and resources, by applying a single approach to multiple management systems by streamlining their auditing processes and removing duplication of effort.

This document shed insights into planning, decision-making and evaluating audits.

The standard includes (but not limited to:

• Scope

• Principles of Auditing

• Managing an audit programme

• Establishing the Audit programme

• Implementing the audit programme

• Monitoring an audit programme

• Reviewing and improving the audit programme

• Conducting audit activities

• Preparing audit report

• Conducting audit evaluation

• And much more

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ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organisation to deal with particular fields of technical activity. In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.

This document provides guidance on the requirements for an information security management system (ISMS) as specified in ISO/IEC 27001 and provides recommendations (‘should’), possibilities (‘can’) and permissions (‘may’) in relation to them. It is not the intention of this document to provide general guidance on all aspects of information security.

Clauses 4 to 10 of this document mirror the structure of ISO/IEC 27001:2013.

This document does not add any new requirements for an ISMS and its related terms and definitions. Organisations should refer to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27000 for requirements and definitions. Organisations implementing an ISMS are under no obligation to observe the guidance in this document.

An ISMS emphasises the importance of the following phases:

• understanding the organisation’s needs and the necessity for establishing information security policy and information security objectives;

• assessing the organisation's risks related to information security;

• implementing and operating information security processes, controls and other measures to treat risks;

• monitoring and reviewing the performance and effectiveness of the ISMS; and

• practising continual improvement.