Guidance

User Guide to Police Powers and Procedures

This guide to Police Powers and Procedures Statistics is designed to be a useful reference guide with explanatory notes on the statistics.

Applies to England and Wales

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The guide contains a glossary of terms, notes on interpreting the figures, and information on sources of data on other police powers.

Published 18 April 2013
Last updated 27 October 2022 + show all updates

27 October 2022
Updated: 'User Guide to Police Powers and Procedures'.
14 December 2021
Updated to accompany the publication of 'Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2021'.
18 November 2021
User guide has been converted to HTML format and updated.
27 October 2020
Updated to accompany publication of 'Police powers and procedures England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2020'.
24 October 2019
Updated to accompany the publication of 'Police powers and procedures England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2019’.
25 October 2018
Updated to accompany the publication of 'Police powers and procedures England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2018'.
26 October 2017
Updated to accompany publication of 'Police powers and procedures England and Wales year ending 31 March 2017'.
27 October 2016
Updated to accompany publication of 'Police powers and procedures England and Wales year ending 31 March 2016'.
6 July 2016
Updated 'User guide to Police powers and procedures'.
16 April 2015
Updated to accompany 'Police powers and procedures England and Wales year ending 31 March 2014'.
3 April 2014
Updated to accompany 'Police powers and procedures England and Wales 2012 to 2013.
18 April 2013
First published.