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.
Home Office in the media: 14 July 2017
Today's Home Office-related coverage includes reporting of the new Drugs Strategy, news of the publication of the animal use in research statistics, and a report from the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration which focuses on foreign students. Drugs Strategy …
The Home Secretary Introduces the Drugs Strategy
Today, the Home Office launched its drugs strategy, and The Home Secretary has written exclusively for the Huffington Post to outline the Government's ambition in tackling the problems caused by drugs. You can read her piece below. The Home Secretary, …
Home Office in the media: 13 July 2017
Today's Home Office related coverage includes yesterday's publication of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration report on east coast ports and of the written ministerial statement on the Home Office's internal review of extremist funding in the UK.
Clarification on review into Islamist extremism funding
The Home Secretary has today laid a Written Ministerial Statement in Parliament setting out the findings of a review of funding for Islamist extremism in the UK.