Home Office in the media blog: Wednesday 19 June
Today's leading stories include calls for venues to be required to prepare dedicated security plans and for the UK to commit to offering protection to further refugees.
What is the government doing to tackle violent crime?
This fact sheet was updated on 23 April 2020. We are recruiting 20,000 new police officers over the next three years. Up to 6,000 additional officers have been allocated in the first wave and will be shared among the 43 …
Home Office in the media blog: Tuesday 18 June
Today's leading stories include coverage of violence in London and a commitment from the Home Secretary to provide sanctuary for a further 5,000 refugees from 2020.
Fact sheet: Investigatory powers
This week, we are defending a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. This post gives more information on the Act, the safeguards it created and the way investigatory powers are used.
Home Office in the media blog: Monday 17 June
Today's leading stories include the Mail's splash on cannabis arrests and a warning over facial recognition technology from a surveillance watchdog.
Home Office in the media blog: Thursday 13 June
Today's leading stories include Serco lock-change notices and Julian Assange
Home Office in the media blog: Wednesday 12 June
Today's Home Office media stories include a court being told that MI5 kept material illegally, public appointments, child informants, and an extradition request for Julian Assange.
Home Secretary responds to Lord Anderson's stock-take of the Operational Improvement Review
Today the Government published Lord Anderson’s stock-take of the Operational Improvement Review (OIR) following the 2017 terrorist attacks. The report outlines the progress that both MI5 and the police have made in implementing the recommendations of the OIR. In response, the …
Home Office in the media blog: Tuesday 11 June
Today's Home Office media stories include the latest update on Windrush to the Home Affairs Select Committee, a High Court legal challenge on child informants, and a Government review on the use of DNA in immigration applications. Windrush apology The …
Home Office in the media blog: Monday 10 June
Today's leading stories include a foiled terror plot, discussions around migrants crossing the Channel and concerns of abuse of Section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act.