Once completed, Codes of Practice are signed off by the relevant ACPO business area and ACPO Cabinet and will usually be accompanied by an NPIA Assisted Implementation plan.
| Title |
Summary |
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| National Intelligence Model 2004 |
- Sets out the basic principles and minimum common standards for the National Intelligence Model
- Promotes compatibility of procedures and terminology for the National Intelligence Model
- Clarifies the responsibilities of chief officers and of police authorities in relation to the application of the National Intelligence Model
- Ensures that observance of these principles, and the standards for implementation, results in a systematic programme of continuous development of police policy, practice and capability
- Identifies and promotes good practice
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| Police Use of Firearms and Less Lethal Weapons 2003 |
- Sets out the basic principles for the selection, testing, acquisition and use of firearms and less lethal weapons
- Sets out how these principles are to be implemented
- Provides a statement on standards of competence, accreditation and operational practice relating to police use of firearms and less lethal weapons
- Ensures that these principles and standards of implementation, result in a programme of continuous development of policy, practice and capability
- Promotes compatibility of operating procedures in order to support procedures for testing and maintaining standards of competence and to support operations involving officers from more than one force
- Fosters and promotes good practice
- Encourages and supports the continuing development and improvement of police response to potentially violent situations, and management of conflict
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| The Management of Police Information 2005 |
- Assists the police in carrying out their duty to obtain and use a wide variety of information (including personal information) in order to carry out their responsibilities
- Aims to ensure that there is broad consistency between forces in the way information is managed within the law
- Ensures effective use of available information within and between individual police forces and other agencies, to provide fair treatment to the public
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| The Police National Computer 2005 |
- Operational efficiency and data protection legislation necessitates the highest standards of data timelines and accuracy on the Police National Computer (PNC)
- PNC records cover many business areas, some of which relate to the start and end of processes for recordable offences. It is these areas that are the subject of this code
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| Police National Database 2010 |
- Promotes the lawful and consistent use of the PND and the information obtained from it
- Ensures that chief officers adopt practices for the use of the PND and the information obtained from it in order that such information is used effectively for policing purposes
- Ensures that the operation of the PND complies with data protection and human rights legislation
- Ensures that the PND is not used in a way which is discriminatory or otherwise unfair to anyone based on their age, race, ethnicity, any faith or belief, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any disability
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