Overview of the latest changes to APP.
APP is subject to review (either scheduled or triggered) in consultation with the relevant National Policing Business Area. All amendments go through a review process and further information is available from contactus@college.police.uk
More detailed changes to APP content may be recorded separately by the the APP team. If you require a copy of APP as it was on a particular date (for example, for an enquiry) please email contactcentre@college.police.uk. All requests must be approved by the relevant Policing Standards Manager.
Latest changes to APP
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| Roads policing | Police pursuits | 23/05/2024 - the following reference and link was added to the final sentence in section 'Fatal collisions resulting from pursuit activity': Post-incident procedures following death or serious injury APP |
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| Public order public safety > Police dogs | Legal frameworks | Updated link to NPCC Dog Standard |
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| Public order public safety > Police dogs | Police dogs - Guidance overview | Updated link to NPCC Dog Standard. |
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| Public order public safety > Police dogs | Training, accreditation and deployment | Updated link to NPCC Dog Standard |
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| Roads policing | Police pursuits | Link to police dogs APP added to police dogs section |
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| Roads policing | Roads policing - Guidance overview | Removed link: ACPO-motorcycle-safety-strategy-2014.pdf (college.police.uk) at request of APP team via email |
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| Critical incident management | Phase 2 – managing critical incidents | Under Victim, their family and community - updated a hyperlink to the Code of Practice for Victims, changed from the 2015 version to the 2020 version. |
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| Major investigation and public protection > Investigating child abuse and safeguarding children | Police response to concern for a child | Under 'interpreters and registered intermediaries' - replaced the 2015 Code of Practice for Victims with 2020 version. The 2015 version was quoted. This quote does not appear word-for-word in the 2020 version, so an alternative, comparable quote was added instead from p.13 of the document. |
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| Investigation | Investigation process | Changed wording to Investigation Process under Allocation: Old wording: Some crimes may be considered less serious in policing. For example, because the sentence on conviction is low or because there is no apparent physical impact but can still have a profound effect on the victim. These crimes may also indicate a higher risk of future harm and may be precursors to more serious offending. New wording: Some crimes may have been considered less serious in policing. This may be, for example, because the sentence on conviction is low or there is no apparent physical impact on the victim. These crimes, however, can still have a profound effect on the victim because of the nature of the offending. For example, persistent behavioural aspects, may make them more serious than they initially appear. They may also indicate a higher risk of future harm and may be precursors to more serious offending.
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| Armed policing | Post-deployment | Changed paragraph to direct quote from Section 12 Police Reform Act: “A DSI matter means any circumstances (unless the circumstances are or have been the subject of a complaint or amount to a conduct matter) in or as a result of a person’s death or serious injury and:
or: at or before the time of the DSI, the person had direct or indirect contact with a person serving with the police who was acting in the execution of their duties, and there is an indication that the contact may have directly or indirectly caused or contributed to the DSI. This sub-category excludes contact that a person suffering the DSI had while acting in the execution of their duties as a person serving with the police” (see Police Reform Act 2002, s 12, as amended by the Policing and Crime Act 2017) |