• A range of strategies for developing protocols and procedures to help forces to prepare for, identify and manage critical incidents
• Focuses on developing force capability, training and resilience, and providing a quality service to every incident - good policing

• Underpins all aspects of policing, from neighbourhood and partnership work to the investigation of serious and organised crime and terrorism
• Assumes no previous knowledge and is designed as a quick reference guide for staff who are not intelligence specialists, but require an understanding of the processes

• Provides advice about the functions of intelligence units, the roles of the people that work within them and the structure of the units
• Builds on the role descriptions provided in ACPO (2005) Guidance on the National Intelligence Model to explain the roles required for intelligence units to operate effectively
• For use within forces at basic command unit (BCU)
• Aimed at those responsible for the running of tasking and co-ordination meetings, managing intelligence units, human resource managers, training managers and anyone undertaking any of the identified roles in the publication

• Provides guidance on roles, responsibilities, procedures and practices when investigating road deaths
• Aimed at Roads Policing Senior Investigating Officers (RP SIO) and other staff involved in the investigation of fatal collisions
• Builds on and supersedes the ACPO (2004) Road Death Investigation Manual
• Outlines common standards, procedures and safe working practices that complement the Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP), the ACPO (2005) Practice Advice on Core Investigative Doctrine and the ACPO (2006) Murder Investigation Manual
• Contains information on resources, key investigative principles and key components/strategies that are relevant to the professional and effective investigation of fatal collisions
• Provides information on family liaison and the relationship with other agencies

• First version of practice advice to policing roads, including motorways
• Replaces the guidance to policing of motorways and is intended for a much wider audience
• Highlights evidenced based best practice and should be incorporated into core business processes to be effective
• Primary audience is any police officer or police staff member, likely to be involved in the control of, respond to, deal with or attend an incident on a road
• Highlights the critical strategic issues that need to be addressed for effective and safer policing of this environment
• Highlights the opportunities to deny criminals the use of the roads, in addition to detailing the operating practices that make dealing with incidents on the roads safer

• Focuses on the use of stop and search powers under the Terrorism Act 2000
• Replaces ACPO (2007) Practice Advice on Stop and Search in Relation to the Terrorism Act and ACPO (2006) Practice Advice on Stop and Search, Section 4
• Provides clear guidance on the rationale for the use of stop and search, the importance of briefing and tasking, and the vital role of community engagement
• Highlights a number of examples of good practice that are available for all forces to use
• Home Office authorisation changes to Home Office Circular 027/2008 http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/publications/home-office-circulars/circulars-2008/027-2008/index.html

• Letter from CC Craig MacKey regarding recent developments in relation to Section 44 Terrorism Act 2000 powers

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• Provides good practice advice to police forces on how to tackle commercial cannabis cultivation and head shops
• Outlines examples of good practice by enforcement agencies tackling production and disrupting organised crime
• Addresses how to tackle head shops and the associated sale and promotion of cannabis cultivation equipment and paraphernalia

• Provides strategic and operational advice
• Structured to follow the pattern of reporting, responding to, and investigating harassment
• Management issues are summarised at the end of each section
• Should be read in conjunction with ACPO (2005) Practice Advice on Core Investigative Doctrine
• Strategic issues, which are particularly relevant for chief officers, emerge from this practice advice

• Will assist BCU commanders and crime managers to assess the effectiveness of their current practices and to implement any changes, where necessary, to volume crime management regimes
• It draws on the original research, the interim practice advice and the lessons learned throughout the pilot phase
• The VCMM should be considered in conjunction with the contents of the ACPO Acquisitive and Volume Crime Site (see Appendix 14), the Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP) and ACPO (2005) Practice Advice on Core Investigative Doctrine and ACPO (2005) Guidance on the National Intelligence Model

• Focuses on the use of examination powers under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000
• Provides clear guidance on the rationale for the use of Schedule 7 powers at ports, airports and international railway stations
• Reinforces the importance of briefing and tasking, and the vital role of community engagement
• Compliments Examining Officers under the terrorism Act 2000 Code of Practice
• Provides a suggested form of words for public information leaflet

• Offers good practice to PIP Level 1 and Level 2 investigators in the use of CCTV as an investigative tool
• Provides volume crime investigators with a comprehensive set of fundamental processes and procedures for acquiring useful and useable CCTV material
• Covers post-event use of CCTV