Latest changes to APP

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Date	Category	Guidance	Changes
16 February 2023	Major investigation and public protection > Missing persons	Expectations	Sentence added to 'The police role and responsibilities' and 'categories' sections. Paragraph added to 'legal expectations'. Minor changes made to first sentence in 'positive action' section. LSCB changed to MASA. FCO changed to FCDO. Reference removed from 'truanting' section
16 February 2023	Major investigation and public protection > Missing persons	Missing person investigations	More reference documents added, removed or updated. Bullet point added to police actions in relation to support for families section. MPB references changed to UKMPU and links updated. Sentence added to medium and low risk missing person subsection of timescales for collecting samples. Legal references added to media strategy section. NPCC lead reference added to family initiated media campaigns section. Sentence added to confidentiality section and interviews section. Paragraph added to prevention interviews section.
16 February 2023	Major investigation and public protection > Missing persons	Missing persons	Contact details for UKMPU (formerly MPB) updated and a sentence added about when to consult mental health services added to end of 'minimum actions' section
16 February 2023	Major investigation and public protection > Missing persons	Specific investigations	General updates: reference to Philomena Protocol, references updated, removed or added, CRA updated, contact details updated (UKMPU, FCDO), police duty of care updated (section 'missing from hospital emergency departments'), SISII section removed.
16 February 2023	Major investigation and public protection > Missing persons	Strategic responsibilities	Organisational names updated (for example, LSCB becomes MASA, IPCC becomes IOPC). References made to Philomena Protocol. Reference documents also added or replaced.
16 February 2023	Major investigation and public protection > Responding to child sexual exploitation	CSE linked reference material	Added links to Voice of the child documents
15 February 2023	Investigation > Investigative strategies	Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR)	Links to NASPLE futureproofed – link to NASPLE document changed to take reader to National ANPR landing page
15 February 2023	Major investigation and public protection > Managing sexual offenders and violent offenders	Court orders and notices	The PCSC Act 2021 introduced new legislation for the management of sex offenders – APP updated accordingly.
15 February 2023	Roads policing	Investigation of fatal and serious injury road collisions	Sections added on disaster victim identification teams, recovery and identification of the deceased and minor text amends made.
9 February 2023	Major investigation and public protection > Missing persons	Missing persons risk assessment	Minor changes made (link to College Learn, new bullet point added to initial questions list, 'mental health' added to sentence in' gathering information and intelligence' section, reference to vulnerability-related risks guidelines and sentence added to 'assessing risk levels and taking action' section)