Every police force in the UK has a designated Single Point of Contact (SPOC) officer for electoral law.

We provide training and advice to police officers in the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) role about preventing and detecting election-related crimes.

Guidance documents and training materials

The College of Policing provide guidance about policing elections in England and Wales.

They also provide a schedule of election and referendum related crimes and penalties, which you can download.

For guidance on policing elections in Scotland, you can download our Guidance on preventing and detecting electoral fraud in Scotland document

You can also download a summary document for each area, which includes an overview of election-related crimes and the actions that should be taken.

The City of London Police deliver a course for SPOCs called ‘Policing Elections and Investigating Electoral Fraud’. Find out more about the course

Our guidance for electoral administrators

We provide guidance and resources to help Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), Returning Officers (ROs) and their staff in running electoral registration, elections and referendums.

View the guidance for electoral administrators

Our guidance for candidates and agents

Candidates and their agents must follow certain rules set out in legislation. We provide guidance to help candidates and agents comply with the rules.

View the guidance for candidates and agents

Electoral fraud data

Every month, we ask police across the UK to send us data about allegations of electoral fraud that they receive and investigate.

We report on the number, type and outcome of the allegations.

Take a look at the data

If you are looking for older data, contact us.

Reporting electoral fraud

We provide voters with information about what electoral fraud is, how to report it, and what happens when they do.

Find out more