Recommendation - Norfolk Constabulary, March 2021

This review identified learning in relation to Norfolk Constabulary's training practices around off duty conduct and officers inadvertently placing themselves on duty. The Home Office Guidance 2020 paragraph 2.21 states that “when police officers produce their warrant card or act in a way to suggest that they are acting in their capacity as a police officer (e.g. declaring that they are a police officer) they are demonstrating that they are exercising their authority and have therefore put themselves on duty and will act in a way which conforms to these standards.” This does not appear to be covered in the student training programme which was limited to a single slide relating to an inappropriate use of the warrant card.