Publications
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Lord Advocate's guidelines: Police and the media
Guidance on police communication with the media, possible contempt of court implications and guidance on giving statements to the media during an investigation.
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Lord Advocate's guidelines on the use of the police direct measures for adult offenders
Lord Advocate's guidance to the police on the use of direct measures.
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Lord Advocate's guidelines: Antisocial behaviour orders
Guidance to police about reporting of cases involving a breach of an antisocial behaviour order.
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Lord Advocate’s guidelines: Offences aggravated or motivated by prejudice
Lord Advocate's guidelines on offences aggravated or motivated by prejudice. These guidelines relate to offences that took place on or after 1 April 2024.
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Lord Advocate’s guidelines: Detention, treatment and questioning of persons under terrorism legislation
Guidance to police regarding extension of the period of detention/delayed access to solicitor/questioning a suspect post-charge, under the Terrorism Act 2006.
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Terrorist cases: joint working within the UK
Read the joint statement regarding the handling of terrorist cases where the jurisdiction to prosecute is shared by prosecuting authorities in the UK.
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Lord Advocate’s guidelines: Vulnerable adult witnesses
Instructions to the police on recording and reporting information about vulnerable adult witnesses.
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Offensive Weapons Statement of Prosecution Policy
Prosecution Policy in relation to relevant offences committed during the offensive weapons surrender campaign, between 1 July 2022 and 30 September 2022.
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Sexual Offences Review Terms of Reference
The Sexual Offences Review Terms of Reference explain what the Sexual Offences Review is and how it will carry out and publish its work.
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Records management manual
This is the COPFS Records management manual which sets out our arrangements for effective management of all public records.