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This Policy Framework provides the requirements and guidance for prisons and staff on searching of the person, cells, areas and vehicles.
Stop and search rates for different ethnic groups in England and Wales.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
How to make an official search and information on their purpose and effect (practice guide 12).
Form OS1: official search with priority by a purchaser against the whole of a registered title or pending first registration application.
The tool is a major advance in how the IPO performs patent searches.
Detention services order 09/2012 about searching detainees, staff and visitors at removal centres.
This paper studies how active labour market policies affect the exchange of information and support among jobseekers
Form OS2: official search with priority by a purchaser against part of the land in a registered title or pending first registration application.
Guidance explaining the powers schools have to screen and search pupils, and to confiscate items they find.
The police can stop and question you at any time - they can search you depending on the situation.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
The IPO marks a game-changing moment as the first patent is filed in new ‘One IPO’ service.
Find out who can search against the name of an owner of land or registered mortgages and how to do it (practice guide 74).
Find registered designs in the UK
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Form OS3: for official search without priority of the land in a registered title.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
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