1 · Published observation
Keep the publisher, source URL, dates and exact public identifiers beside the published record.
Public integrity · evidence before inference
Follow the record. Do not invent the link.
Contracts, declared benefits, company records, land titles and political finance become separate, source-linked events. Law-enforcement power is mapped by institution and office. Nothing becomes a “deal”, favour or allegation merely because two names look alike.
2 · Typed evidence event
State what the publisher records: donation, meeting, award, benefit, filing or corporate land title.
3 · Reviewed join
Join only on an exact official identifier or a documented manual review. A name match is only a candidate.
Hard rule: donation + meeting + contract does not equal an exchange of benefits. A further relationship appears only when a competent official finding establishes it. Corrections and withdrawals stay visible as evidence states; causal inference stays “none”.
Finances · corporates · land · benefits
Every dataset says whether it is live, mapped or stopped.
“Public registry” is the starting point, not automatic permission to copy everything. Copyright, database rights, personal-data necessity and source correction routes are checked separately.
Public contract awards
LiveContracts Finder award releases, projected into organisation-first records.
Safe projection: Buyer, verified organisation supplier, OCID, value, dates and classification.
Left out: Addresses, contact people, direct contacts, attachment bodies and unverified supplier names.
Ministerial gifts and hospitality
Review gateThe monthly central-government CSV parser is built, but named records are not open yet.
Safe projection: When approved: minister, department, date, published benefit, direction, counterparty and value.
Left out: Name-based joins, private contacts and any claim that a reported benefit bought influence.
Commons financial interests
MappedThe official register is mapped; its sensitive free text still needs a field-level parser and review.
Safe projection: Planned: member ID, category, dates, corporate organisation, company number and declared value.
Left out: Family categories, addresses, residence clues, natural-person counterparties and unreviewed free text.
Consultant-lobbyist client returns
MappedThe official register is identified; reuse terms and normalisation still need review.
Safe projection: Planned: registered organisation, company number, quarter, organisation client and nil return.
Left out: Name-only entity joins and claims about what lobbying achieved.
Ministerial meetings and travel
MappedDepartment meeting, overseas-travel and related transparency returns need a reviewed shared parser.
Safe projection: Planned: minister, department, period, organisation counterparty, published purpose and reported cost.
Left out: Unreviewed free text, natural-person enrichment, name-only joins and any claim that a meeting produced an agreement.
APPG benefits
MappedThe official All-Party Parliamentary Group register reports officers, secretariats and qualifying benefits.
Safe projection: Planned: group, purpose, Parliamentary officers, secretariat organisation, benefit source, value band and dates.
Left out: Private-person enrichment and unsupported claims that a group acted for a benefit source.
Company identity
MappedCompanies House can verify an organisation by its exact public identifier.
Safe projection: Planned: company number, name, status, type, SIC and incorporation or filing dates.
Left out: Officer and individual PSC data, addresses, birth data, signatures and filing images.
Government grants and subsidies
MappedOfficial grant and subsidy registers are mapped; a shared organisation-first format is next.
Safe projection: Planned: verified recipient organisation, authority, programme, value or band, dates and legal basis.
Left out: Natural-person recipients and unsupported claims of political involvement.
Department payments and MPs' costs
MappedMonthly department spending files and IPSA bulk publications remain separate public-money records.
Safe projection: Planned: public body, corporate supplier, amount, date, expense type, reference and business-cost category.
Left out: Staff identities or pay, accommodation detail, security-sensitive costs and unsanctioned website crawling.
Charity identity
MappedThe Charity Commission register can verify an organisation through its exact charity number.
Safe projection: Planned: charity number, name, status, classification, organisation finances and return dates.
Left out: Trustee or contact-person enrichment, addresses and name-only joins.
Corporate land in England and Wales
Licence gateHM Land Registry corporate ownership data has its own licence and is not open in this API yet.
Safe projection: After approval: verified company proprietor, title ID, tenure, broad geography and reported price.
Left out: Natural-person ownership, reverse person search, residential targeting and proprietor addresses.
Electoral Commission political finance
Licence gateThe normalized donation door stays closed until database-reuse terms are confirmed in writing.
Safe projection: After approval: corporate donor or lender, company number, recipient, amount, type and dates.
Left out: Addresses, postcodes, sole traders and individual donors without a separate lawful-basis review.
Law enforcement · four constitutional maps
There is no single UK command pyramid.
Strategy, appointments, funding, operational command, inspection, complaints and prosecution are different legal relationships. The map keeps them different, including across devolved systems.
England & Wales
Local strategy and operational command are deliberately held by different offices.
PCC or policing mayor
Sets the police and crime plan, budget and precept; appoints the chief constable through the statutory process.
Boundary: Does not direct an investigation, arrest, deployment or incident.
Chief constable
Directs and controls the territorial force and its operations within law.
Boundary: Does not decide whether the CPS prosecutes or whether a court convicts.
Crown Prosecution Service
Makes independent charging decisions in serious or complex cases and conducts prosecutions.
Boundary: A police referral is not a prosecution decision or a finding of guilt.
Checks: Police and crime panels scrutinise core PCC decisions; IOPC oversees complaints and serious conduct matters; HMICFRS inspects forces.
Scotland
Scotland has one national police service with separate governance, command, oversight and prosecution.
Scottish Police Authority
Maintains policing, allocates resources and holds the Chief Constable to account.
Boundary: Governance does not make the Authority an incident commander.
Chief Constable
Directs and controls Police Scotland and its resources.
Boundary: Remains accountable to the Authority and subject to lawful prosecutorial instructions where relevant.
COPFS
Independently decides and conducts prosecutions and can direct relevant investigations in law.
Boundary: A police report does not decide prosecution or the court outcome.
Checks: PIRC independently investigates specified matters and reviews complaint handling; other inspection and court routes remain separate.
Northern Ireland
The Policing Board scrutinises; PSNI commands operations; PPSNI decides prosecutions.
Northern Ireland Policing Board
Sets the policing plan, appoints senior leadership through statute and scrutinises performance.
Boundary: Does not issue operational orders or direct investigations.
PSNI Chief Constable
Directs and controls PSNI operations.
Boundary: Operational command does not decide an independent prosecution or court outcome.
PPSNI
Independently decides whether to prosecute referred investigations and conducts prosecutions.
Boundary: Referral, charge, prosecution and conviction remain separate states.
Checks: The public institutional map links each responsibility to its official contact and governance source.
UK serious & organised crime
National accountability does not silently become political direction of an operation or case.
Home Secretary
Carries strategy, governance, funding and Parliamentary accountability within the statutory framework.
Boundary: Political accountability is not a power to order an individual investigation or prosecution.
NCA Director General
Leads the NCA and makes operational decisions independently within its legal remit.
Boundary: Territorial arrangements and statutory powers define its reach.
Prosecution authority
The independent authority for the relevant UK jurisdiction decides prosecution.
Boundary: Law-enforcement action does not establish guilt; courts adjudicate.
Checks: The Director General is accountable to the Home Secretary and Parliament while operational decisions remain independent.
Seven visible dimensions · law-bound
Formal office power cards
The number rates an office's published formal authority—not the holder's character, performance, importance, network or integrity. Cards stay in institutional order, never a leaderboard. Compare only within the same office family, jurisdiction and method version.
England & Wales territorial policing
Territorial Chief Constable baseline
One territorial force area · taxsorted.uk.enforcement-office-power/1.0.0-draft
65
of 100
Coercive authority
5/5
Operational direction
5/5
Prosecution discretion
0/5
Rules & sanctions
2/5
Money & resources
4/5
Appointments & removal
3/5
Geographic scope
3/5
Read the office's legal limits
- PCC or mayor sets strategy and budget but cannot command operations.
- CPS makes independent prosecution decisions; courts adjudicate.
Evidence source IDs: chief-constable-profile, pcc-panel-guidance, cps-role, iopc-role, hmicfrs-role
England & Wales democratic accountability
PCC / policing mayor baseline
One police area · taxsorted.uk.enforcement-office-power/1.0.0-draft
40
of 100
Coercive authority
0/5
Operational direction
0/5
Prosecution discretion
0/5
Rules & sanctions
2/5
Money & resources
4/5
Appointments & removal
5/5
Geographic scope
3/5
Read the office's legal limits
- Cannot direct investigations, arrests, deployments or incident command.
- A police and crime panel scrutinises core decisions.
Evidence source IDs: pcc-panel-guidance, chief-constable-profile
England & Wales prosecution
Director of Public Prosecutions
England and Wales · taxsorted.uk.enforcement-office-power/1.0.0-draft
65
of 100
Coercive authority
1/5
Operational direction
4/5
Prosecution discretion
5/5
Rules & sanctions
3/5
Money & resources
3/5
Appointments & removal
3/5
Geographic scope
4/5
Read the office's legal limits
- Police investigate; courts decide guilt and sentence.
- Attorney General superintendence is not day-to-day direction of individual cases.
Evidence source IDs: cps-role, cps-accountability
UK government sponsorship and policing policy
Home Secretary law-enforcement baseline
UK, varying by devolution and statute · taxsorted.uk.enforcement-office-power/1.0.0-draft
50
of 100
Coercive authority
1/5
Operational direction
0/5
Prosecution discretion
0/5
Rules & sanctions
4/5
Money & resources
4/5
Appointments & removal
3/5
Geographic scope
5/5
Read the office's legal limits
- Funding and political accountability do not create case-direction power.
- Devolved policing systems have separate ministers and institutions.
Evidence source IDs: police-grants-ew-2026, nca-governance, chief-constable-profile, cps-accountability
UK national law enforcement
NCA Director General
UK, with territorial arrangements · taxsorted.uk.enforcement-office-power/1.0.0-draft
70
of 100
Coercive authority
5/5
Operational direction
5/5
Prosecution discretion
0/5
Rules & sanctions
2/5
Money & resources
4/5
Appointments & removal
4/5
Geographic scope
5/5
Read the office's legal limits
- Prosecution authorities make independent prosecution decisions.
- Accountable to the Home Secretary and Parliament while operational decisions remain independent.
Evidence source IDs: nca-governance, cps-role, ppsni-governance, copfs-role
Scottish policing
Chief Constable of Police Scotland
Scotland · taxsorted.uk.enforcement-office-power/1.0.0-draft
70
of 100
Coercive authority
5/5
Operational direction
5/5
Prosecution discretion
0/5
Rules & sanctions
2/5
Money & resources
4/5
Appointments & removal
3/5
Geographic scope
5/5
Read the office's legal limits
- The Scottish Police Authority governs and holds the office to account.
- COPFS independently prosecutes and may give lawful instructions in relevant investigations.
Evidence source IDs: scotland-police-act-2012, spa-governance, copfs-role, pirc-role
Northern Ireland policing
PSNI Chief Constable
Northern Ireland · taxsorted.uk.enforcement-office-power/1.0.0-draft
70
of 100
Coercive authority
5/5
Operational direction
5/5
Prosecution discretion
0/5
Rules & sanctions
2/5
Money & resources
4/5
Appointments & removal
3/5
Geographic scope
5/5
Read the office's legal limits
- The Policing Board appoints and scrutinises but does not direct operations.
- PPSNI independently decides prosecutions.
Evidence source IDs: ni-policing-map, ppsni-governance
Work, people and public words
Observe institutions without building personal dossiers.
Workforce & pay
Pay bands, allowances, pensions and senior remuneration stay separate and effective-dated. Demographics are aggregate only, preserving official suppression and preventing small-cell differencing.
Vacancies & public activity
Vacancies link to official applications and never collect applicant data. Public work means board meetings, minutes, inspection reports, strategies, annual reports and official speeches—not officer logs.
Method only · review gate
Observable language in official texts
A future reproducible corpus may count sentence length, questions, pronouns, modal words, numeric tokens and speaking-turn length. Minimum: 10 documents, 5,000 words, 3 dates and 30 days.
No sentiment, honesty, aggression, manipulation, ideology, competence, emotion, personality, intent or management-style label.
Private security
The SIA regulator, verified companies and public awards belong in the institution graph. The individual licence checker stays a purpose-bound official link, never a bulk worker directory.
A private-security job or licence is not general police power.
England & Wales · current published base ranges
Police pay by rank
Effective 1 September 2025; checked 10 July 2026. London and other allowances are separate from these annual base-pay ranges.
| Rank | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|
| Constable | £31,164 | £50,256 |
| Sergeant | £53,568 | £56,208 |
| Inspector | £63,768 | £68,982 |
| Chief Inspector | £70,344 | £73,149 |
| Superintendent | £84,177 | £99,015 |
| Chief Superintendent | £103,797 | £115,785 |
Defined-benefit, inflation-linked pension; the Home Office states a 35.3% employer contribution.
Subject to the progression standard, constables typically reach the top point in six years; other ranks in three to four years.
Eligible federated-rank hours from 20:00 to 06:00 receive an additional 10% of basic hourly pay.
No key · release state visible · open formats
Developer handoff
After this API release is deployed, the catalogue, rights statement and bulk dataset schemas remain readable through publication review. Record bodies and downloads remain closed until the human release conditions are met; the catalogue marks that state instead of implying an empty dataset. Once marked open, every dataset carries stable IDs, a schema, source IDs, licence notes and JSON, CSV and NDJSON links.
After API deployment: browse release state and every catalogued distribution
After API deployment: validate the shared JSON dataset envelope
After API deployment: read the curation and source-rights boundary
After API deployment: inspect every dataset admission and pending human decision
After human release approval: finance-source publication-status records
After human release approval: enforcement governance JSON
After human release approval: enforcement governance CSV
After human release approval: enforcement governance NDJSON
Check release state and learn how to mirror with ETags →
Purpose-built query and method doors
Each door states coverage, source and safety limits. A blocked source returns a clear gate instead of pretending to be empty.
Scope, truth rule and publication gates
Official source and reuse ledger
Correction, restriction and urgent-safety method
Evidence-event schema and joining rules
Finance and relationship dataset status
Live, redacted contract awards
UK enforcement institutions and contacts
Accountability and command relationships
Live police-force directory
Official pay and benefits sources
Aggregate workforce and demographics sources
Official recruitment routes
Safe public-activity coverage
SIA and private-security publication boundary
Mapped formal office-power cards
Observable official-language method
The boundary is part of the product
What is gated, and what never belongs here
Gated pending a decision
- ○ Parliament-published staff names, pending a separate necessity and reasonable-expectations review.
- ○ Commons registered-interest text, pending the separate field, third-party and land-detail review.
- ○ Named ministerial gift and hospitality rows, pending field-level lawful-basis, counterparty and correction review.
- ○ Named senior police leadership rows, pending the senior-office threshold, correction route and safety review.
- ○ Identifiable language analysis, pending a separate legitimate-interests and data-protection impact assessment.
- ○ Corporate land and Electoral Commission mirrors, pending separate licence/reuse decisions and the political-finance privacy review.
Excluded by design
- — Private or residential addresses, direct personal contacts, family links and reverse person-to-property searches.
- — Rank-and-file rosters, investigators, specialist-unit membership, shifts, deployments, tactics, protected sites or live incidents.
- — Victim, witness, suspect, conviction, complaint or disciplinary dossiers.
- — Guessed quid pro quo, influence, corruption, guilt, ideology, intent, personality or management style.
Emergency stop: every named-person publication gate can be closed without taking down the non-personal institution, method, source and accountability records. Read the correction and restriction method ↗