This Statutory Guidance for Police Collaboration is published to assist chief officers and policing bodies when considering and implementing collaborative working as a means to achieving more efficient and effective delivery of policing services. It includes clarification of the relevant legislation that governs collaboration in the police service, in particular of sections 22A to 23I […]
Police forces have a duty to obtain and use a wide variety of information (including personal information), in order to discharge their responsibilities effectively. They need the support and cooperation of the public in doing so. The purpose of the Code and associated guidance is to assist the police to carry out that duty. The code […]
The purpose of the code is: – To set out the responsibilities of chief officers in relation to the management of police pursuits; – To set out the overarching framework for the management of police pursuits; – To set out the overarching framework for selection, training and authorisation of police officers and other police staff to conduct […]
In Tershana v Albania [2020] ECHR 586; (2021) 72 EHRR 13, the authorities’ failure adequately to investigate an acid attack against a woman amounted to a breach of the procedural obligation under Article 2, justifying damages of €12,000. In some ways, however, the judgment seems to be unsatisfying – citing cases that don’t quite fit […]
In Tershana v Albania [2020] ECHR 586; (2021) 72 EHRR 13, the authorities’ failure adequately to investigate an acid attack against a woman amounted to a breach of the procedural obligation under Article 2, justifying damages of €12,000. In some ways, however, the judgment seems to be unsatisfying – citing cases that don’t quite fit […]