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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| Major investigation and public protection > Domestic abuse | Leadership, strategic oversight and management | The section under 'Specific management considerations when dealing with police perpetrators of domestic abuse' has been deleted and replaced with new text. These changes were required due to a super-complaint investigation. |
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| Policing elections | Key roles and planning | The amendments made on the 28/06/24 included an addition of a paragraph (second) under the heading 'Candidates and campaigners'. Very minimal grammatical changes were recommended but were not made at this time due to urgency of the update. These have now been changed:
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| Armed policing | Attenuating energy projectiles | further minor content changes made throughout to reflect moving from the AEP L60A2 to AEP A3 |
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| Investigation | Investigation process | NPCC Community Resolutions Guidance 2022 link fixed |
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| Armed policing | Weapons and equipment | Paragraph (below) removed from section titled 'Optical sights and observation equipment'. Dstl has produced a document that will help forces choose an appropriate sighting system: HOSDB (2001) Optical sights for use with Police Firearms 06/01. (Available to authorised members of the police service on request, see Dstl (opens an external website in the same tab).) |
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| Armed policing | Attenuating energy projectiles | Content changes made throughout to reflect moving from the AEP L60A2 to AEP A3 |
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| Investigation > Investigative interviewing | Investigative interviewing | Addition of NPCC Voluntary Interview Guidance link. Voluntary-interview-guidance-2024.pdf (college.police.uk) |
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| Information management > Management of police information | Review, retention and disposal | Additional paragraph added to retention, review and disposal (last paragraph under ‘Access decisions’). |
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| Prosecution and case management | Prosecution and case management reference material | Removed link to decommissioned 2010 ACPO guidance and added link to MOSOVO APP |
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| Detention and custody | Preventing deaths and serious injury for sexual offence detainees | Changed the title to better reflect the documents included in the section and at the request of the PSM, due to the length and complexity of the original. We also discussed search optimisation. Added a document produced by FFLM - this is new guidance (2024) and fits well in this section. Link added and the lead in line was changed to refer to both documents clearly. |