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Editorial Guidelines in Full

Crime & Anti-Social Behaviour

• Introduction
• Crime editorial principles
• Crime mandatory referrals to Controller Editorial Policy
• Reporting crime
• Investigations into crime & serious anti-social behaviour
• Disguising identities
• Interviews with prisoners
• Payments
• Paedophiles & other sex offenders
• Crime reconstructions
• Crime library material
• Requests for untransmitted material
• Requests for untransmitted material from the police
• Requests for transmitted material

Introduction

Our reporting of crime and anti-social behaviour aims to give audiences the facts in their context. It must not add to people's fears of becoming victims of crime when statistically they are very unlikely to be so.

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