Police Audio Visual and Multi-Media Redaction (AVMMR) Funding

The Home Office is offering funding to help police forces improve their audio visual and multimedia redaction systems. Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales can apply on behalf of their police forces. You can get between £5,000 and £500,000 to buy proven redaction technology or test new systems. The money must be spent by 31 March 2027. This funding aims to save police time on redacting evidence so officers can focus on other priorities. You can use the money to implement existing technology or pilot new redaction tools and workflows.

This funding is only for Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales, including mayoral authorities with PCC functions. You must be applying on behalf of a territorial police force. This is not for private companies or other organisations.

The Home Office invites applications from Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales, including mayoral authorities exercising PCC functions, on behalf of territorial police forces. Funding is to improve Audio Visual Multi-Media (AVMM) redaction capability and deliver time savings which can be redirected towards policing priorities. It will support activities to: A) implement, embed, scale and sustain the benefits of proven AVMM redaction technologies and operating models; and/or B) pilot, test and evaluate new or unproven AVMM redaction technologies, workflows or operating models that have not previously been trialled in policing, with credible national transformational potential. Funding is for FY2026-27 only; costs must be incurred by 31 March 2027.