When you click on the word "Register" on the "Log In Here" panel, you will see a form to complete. The first seven fields on the registration form are necessary for the site system to function properly. For more information on what is required in each field, place your mouse pointer of the white and blue icon showing a lowercase letter "i". Your "username" should be a single word and may be your ordinary name or any other designation that you use on internet sites. It's best to keep it as short as possible and to make it easy to remember! (It can include numbers or dates if you wish.) The email address that you leave here may be the same as any you entered earlier but this address will be verified by the system as a precaution against spammers. The system will send you an email on recipt of your application. When it arrives, you will need to click on a link in that email, taking you back to the site. This allows us to verify that your email address is valid. If the address cannot be verified for any reason, your application will stall. If , after 24 hours, you have not received an email from us, please contact the website administrator directly. (Click here for contact details.)

Your password must be at least six characters long and may contain upper or lower case letters, numbers or other keyboard characters. However, it may notcontain any spaces. When you log in, your username is not case sensitive but your password is. Your password is stored on the site but only in an encrypted format.

The remainder of the form asks for information that will help us in the administration of NACP. First of all, you will be asked to signify whether or not you are a "UK Police Chaplain". If you are a police chaplain elsewhere in the world, you are still welcome to register on the site but only those working as police chaplains in the UK can be members of NACP. Not all police forces in the UK employ chaplains on a formal basis but, if you are effectively working as a chaplain to a local force, then regardless of whether your work is voluntary or paid, you are eligible to become a member of NACP.

Next, please enter the police force and region in which you work. Your membership of NACP is recognised initially at regional level by the regional coordinator with whom we will liaise to confirm that you are working in the UK as a police chaplain. The listing of full members on this site now forms the national register of NACP members. If you work as a police chaplain elsewhere or simply wish to support the work of NACP in the UK, please select "Not Applicable" from the list of UK forces. Your registration on this site will entitle you to see some additional content here and will give us some measure of the wider support that exists for police chaplaincy in this country.

Please indicate your rôle locally. It is very helpful for us to be able to gather figures of how many chaplains operate on a purely voluntary basis. Furthermore, if you function as the "lead" chaplain in your force (or by whatever equivalent title you may be known), it is helpful if you can indicate that here. If you are joining us as a supporter, please select "Other".

If you play a particular rôle in NACP itself, please indicate that here but, otherwise, simply leave this field blank. Your contact details showing your address and telephone numbers may be seen by other members who are registered on the site but will not be available to the general public. You may leave these fields blank if you wish.

Various people may be invited to take responsibility for providing articles for the main site and will be assigned a rôle of "author", "editor" or "publisher" to enable them to submit their own items to the site. Please note, however, that the "Members' Forum" is available to all NACP members and may be used to pass on items of news or other matters of general interest.