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Home Office Training


Build stronger cases. Recognise hidden harms. Stay safer on visits.

CTSI has joined forces with the UK Home Office to develop a new practical training programme that assists enforcement professionals to identify, investigate and respond to the criminal activity encountered in your role.

Through expert-led sessions, you'll explore topics including illicit trade, modern slavery and child sexual exploitation, while building the practical skills needed to gather intelligence, strengthen investigations and take effective enforcement action.

For professionals working in regulation, enforcement and public protection.


Planned topics include:

  • Investigations and intelligence: strengthen your skills in gathering information, sharing intelligence and building cases.

  • Proceeds of crime: understand opportunities to recover the financial proceeds of criminal activity.

  • Counterfeiting and underage sales: develop your knowledge to support effective enforcement.

  • Organised crime in commercial rented property: understand criminal activity and enforcement options involving landlords.

  • Modern slavery and child sexual exploitation: recognise warning signs in your day-to-day work.

  • Personal safety: manage challenging situations and plan safer visits.

  • Energy theft: recognise hazards and understand how to keep yourself safe.

  • Trading Standards powers: build confidence in using powers appropriately, with sessions for new staff, apprentices and experienced officers.

  • Management: strengthen oversight of enforcement activity and decision-making.


Just a couple more topics to be finalised - Keep an eye on this page.

Course details and dates will be released in stages, with training running from late October 2026 onwards.

 

Tackling High Street Criminality

Tackling High Street Criminality

Enforcement officers play a vital role in protecting consumers, supporting legitimate businesses, and keeping our high streets safe.

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Follow the Fake: Counterfeit Toys, Games and Electronics

Follow the Fake: Counterfeit Toys, Games and Electronics

Tackling counterfeit goods, illicit trade, fraud, and other criminal activity, is vital in creating fair, thriving communities where businesses can compete honestly and consumers can shop with confidence.

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Getting it Right - Securing the Best Evidence

Getting it Right - Securing the Best Evidence

A strong prosecution case is not simply about securing convictions. It is about demonstrating that action is evidence-led, proportionate, and focused on protecting consumers, legitimate businesses and wider society.

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Identifying and Reporting Energy Theft

Identifying and Reporting Energy Theft

Energy theft is often viewed as a financial crime, but it can also present significant risks to public safety, critical infrastructure and frontline personnel and expose wider criminality, vulnerability and safeguarding concerns.

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Landlords and Criminality: Understanding Organised Crime in the Private Rented Sector

Landlords and Criminality: Understanding Organised Crime in the Private Rented Sector

Organised criminality can have a significant and wide-ranging impact on the private rented sector (PRS), creating risks for tenants, landlords, local authorities, and communities. This session provides an insight into the hidden links between the Private Rented Sector (PRS) and organised criminal activity.

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Enforcing Against Landlords Involved in Organised Crime: What Can You Do?

Enforcing Against Landlords Involved in Organised Crime: What Can You Do?

Organised criminality can have a significant and wide-ranging impact on the private rented sector (PRS), creating risks for tenants, landlords, local authorities, and communities. This practical session focuses on the enforcement tools available to local authorities when dealing with landlords and property owners linked to organised criminal activity.

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Criminality in the Private Rented Sector: An Introduction for Enforcers and Stakeholders

Criminality in the Private Rented Sector: An Introduction for Enforcers and Stakeholders

Organised crime groups rely on property, to facilitate criminal activity and to conceal the proceeds of crime. From flats above retail premises to houses in areas with high concentrations of HMOs, criminals often seek locations where they can operate unnoticed.

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Conflict Management and Personal Safety Training (Theory)

Conflict Management and Personal Safety Training (Theory)

Frontline staff who understand conflict management and personal safety are better equipped to de-escalate challenging situations, protect themselves and others from harm, maintain professionalism, and carry out their roles effectively and confidently.

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