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The Policing Protocol Order 2011 sets out the roles and responsibilities of different bodies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/policing-protocol-order-2011-statutory-instrument |title=Policing Protocol Order 2011 (statutory instrument) |work=gov.uk |access-date=15 June 2023 |date=21 February 2012}}</ref> For the home secretary, it states:

The Policing Protocol Order 2011 sets out the roles and responsibilities of different bodies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/policing-protocol-order-2011-statutory-instrument |title=Policing Protocol Order 2011 (statutory instrument) |work=gov.uk |access-date=15 June 2023 |date=21 February 2012}}</ref> For the home secretary, it states:

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The Home Secretary is ultimately accountable to Parliament and charged with ensuring the maintenance of the [[Queen's Peace]] within all force areas, safeguarding the public and protecting our national borders and security. The Home Secretary has reserved powers and legislative tools that enable intervention and direction to all parties, if it is determined by the Home Secretary that such action is necessary in order to prevent or mitigate risk to the public or national security. Such powers and tools will be used only as a last resort, and will not be used to interfere with the democratic will of the electorate within a force area, nor seek to interfere with the office of constable, unless the Home Secretary is satisfied on the advice of [[Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary]] that not to do so would result in a police force failing or national security being compromised.

The Home Secretary is ultimately accountable to Parliament and charged with ensuring the maintenance of the [[Queen's Peace]] within all force areas, safeguarding the public and protecting our national borders and security. The Home Secretary possesses reserved powers and legislative instruments that allow for intervention and direction to all relevant parties, if deemed necessary to prevent or mitigate risks to the public or national security. Such powers and tools will be used only as a last resort, and will not be used to interfere with the democratic will of the electorate within a force area, nor seek to interfere with the office of constable, unless the Home Secretary is satisfied on the advice of [[Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary]] that not to do so would result in a police force failing or national security being compromised.

The Home Secretary retains the legal accountability for national security and the role that the police service plays within the delivery of any national response. The Home Secretary has a duty to issue a Strategic Policing Requirement that sets out what are, in her view, the national threats at the time and the appropriate national policing capabilities that are required to counter them.<ref name="PPO">{{cite web |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2744/schedule/made |title=The Policing Protocol Order 2011, Schedule, paragraphs 28-29 |work=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref>

The Home Secretary retains the legal accountability for national security and the role that the police service plays within the delivery of any national response. The Home Secretary has a duty to issue a Strategic Policing Requirement that sets out what are, in her view, the national threats at the time and the appropriate national policing capabilities that are required to counter them.<ref name="PPO">{{cite web |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2744/schedule/made |title=The Policing Protocol Order 2011, Schedule, paragraphs 28-29 |work=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref>