Home Office in the media: 26 July 2017
Today’s Home Office-related coverage includes reporting of yesterday’s publication of Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) annual statistics on deaths during or following police contact.
Home Office in the media: 25 July 2017
The main stories relating to the Home Office this morning include the Metropolitan Police's announcement on providing new kit to officers in order to deal with acid attacks and a report in the Express on a lorry driver who was …
Home Office in the media: 24 July 2017
The main Home Office story in the media today has focused on Spice, the street name for a group of synthetic cannaboids, which was formally a so-called ‘legal high’ before being banned last year.
Home Office in the media: 21 July 2017
...by the Express says that control of “our borders” must include the ability to deport “foreign criminals”. The Telegraph notes that the criminal record checks would only cover serious crimes...
Police workforce figures
...there is considerable scope to improve efficiency. This Government is giving policing the tools to achieve this by increasing the size of the Police Transformation Fund to £175m in 2017/18....
Crime statistics
...and girls. The 2016 Psychoactive Substances Act bans the sale (including online), supply, production and distribution of psychoactive substances such as spice; it gives police and local authorities greater powers...
Home Office in the media: 19 July 2017
The main Home Office stories in the media today relate to the arrests of three Britons in Calais who allegedly tried to fly four illegal immigrants into England, coverage of BBC analysis which shows that many criminal investigations are left …
Home Office in the media: 18 July 2017
The main Home Office stories in the media today relate to the Home Secretary’s announcement on tackling knife crime and criticism of the government’s approach to strengthening acid-attack sentencing. Knife Crime Announcement There has been widespread coverage across print and …
Home Office in the media: 17 July 2017
BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme broadcast an interview with an individual who had been supported by the Prevent Channel programme. The individual was referred to Channel over far-right radicalisation concerns. His mentor who works for the Prevent-funded project KIKIT Pathwayz, was …
Home Office in the media: 17 July 2017
Today’s Home Office-related coverage includes the announcement by the Security Minister of £2million of funding for research into technology and behavioural science to help identify terrorists in crowds, and new measures announced yesterday to combat acid attacks.