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Major investigation and public protectionResponding to public protection and major investigation issues, for example, child abuse, child sexual exploitation and firearms licensingOverview
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Managing sexual offenders and violent offendersOverview
- Introduction to managing sexual offenders and violent offenders
- Multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA)
- Identification of MOSOVO offenders
- Potentially dangerous persons
- Notification requirements
- Identifying, assessing and managing risk
- Home visits
- Managing public protection information
- Offenders with mental health issues
- Travelling abroad
- Communication and media considerations
- Reviews
- Court orders and notices
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Investigating child abuse and safeguarding childrenOverview
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Police response to investigating child abuse
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Responding to child sexual exploitation
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Domestic abuseOverview
- Introduction to authorised professional practice on domestic abuse
- Context and dynamics of domestic abuse
- Understanding risk and vulnerability in the context of domestic abuse
- Identification, reporting and associated investigations
- Call handler and front counter staff response to a domestic abuse incident
- Call handler quick reference guide - domestic abuse
- First response
- First response quick reference guide - domestic abuse
- First response national decision model (NDM) tool
- First response supervisor's checklist - domestic abuse
- Arrest and other positive approaches
- Using domestic violence protection notices and domestic violence protection orders to make victims safer
- Investigative development
- The role of domestic abuse specialists in supporting investigation and incident management
- Post-arrest management of suspect and casefile
- Victim safety and support
- Leadership, strategic oversight and management
- Partnership working and multi-agency responses/mechanisms
- Domestic abuse quick access checklists
- Female genital mutilation
- Firearms licensing
- Forced marriage and honour based abuse
- Gangs and youth violence
- Gun crime
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Hate crimeOverview
- Responding to hate
- Community engagement and tension
- Partnership working
- Responding to hate crimes
- Responding to non-crime hate incidents
- Intelligence
- Victim and witness care and support
- Criminal justice processes
- Online hate
- Hate crime and counter terrorism
- Inciting hatred
- Supervision and oversight
- Strategic leadership
- Performance management
- Hate crime in sport
- Internal hate crime and incidents
- Reference material - Hate crime
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Homicide
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Missing personsOverview
- Missing persons
- Strategic responsibilities
- Missing persons risk assessment
- Expectations
- Missing person investigations
- Specific investigations
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Missing persons quick reference guides
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Modern slaveryOverview
- Modern slavery introduction
- Modern slavery definitions
- Key responsibilities
- Modern Slavery Act 2015
- Risk and identification
- Taking a report
- First response and the national referral mechanism
- Modern slavery investigation
- Suspect strategy
- Victim and witness strategy
- Post-investigation
- Partner agencies
- List of anti-slavery charities and non-governmental organisations
- Additional relevant legislation
- Modern slavery reference material
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This page is from APP, the official source of professional practice for policing.
This authorised professional practice (APP) on domestic abuse has been developed through the consolidation and updating of pre-existing ACPO (2008) Guidance on Investigating Domestic Abuse, and professional expertise of police and voluntary sector practitioners. The section on risk assessment and risk factors draws on findings from systematic reviews of research evidence. Where the guidance draws on any empirical evidence it is explicitly referenced in the text.
The APP responds to a number of developments in the field of domestic abuse, in particular a new Home Office definition of domestic violence and abuse. The definition recognises the significance of controlling or coercive behaviour in better understanding domestic abuse. During the development of this APP, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) also released its findings from a major inspection of how all police forces in England and Wales handle allegations of domestic abuse.
For practitioner resources see College of Policing: Principles for the identification, assessment and management of serial or potentially dangerous domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators.