The Blackstone's Police Investigators' Manual 2007 is the only official study text (along with the Investigators' Workbook) for the National Investigators' Exam (NIE) which is taken as part of Phase 1 of the Initial Crime Investigators' Development Programme. Based on the bestselling Blackstone's Police Manuals, it provides legal information which is relevant to the role of a trainee investigator, namely in the areas of Property Offences, Assaults, Drugs, Firearms & Defences, Sexual Offences, Offences Against Children and Evidence. Now in it's fifth edition, this Manual is fully updated for the 2006/7 syllabus with reference to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA), the updates to the PACE Codes of Practice, the Drugs Act 2005 and the Terrorism Bill.