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.
Today's leading stories include the Mail's splash on cannabis arrests and a warning over facial recognition technology from a surveillance watchdog.
Today's leading stories include Serco lock-change notices and Julian Assange
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Today's leading story is based on a study which shows that the UK has the highest rate of cocaine use in Europe. UK cocaine use highest in Europe There is coverage in the Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Metro of the …
Today's Home Office media stories include new anti-knife crime school lessons and an update on funding for Operation Grange. New anti-knife crime lessons The Guardian, Mirror and Daily Mail report that pupils in schools in England will be given additional …
In March, the Home Secretary announced he was giving police forces in areas most affected by serious violence greater powers to use Section 60, empowering officers to stop and search anyone in a designated area without needing reasonable grounds for …
Clarification on the funding for Operation Grange.