Home Office in the media: 3 July 2017
...the Home Secretary that has been published in the Guardian calling for the immediate release of a report into deaths in police custody. The report by Dame Elish Angiolini will...
Home Office in the media: 23 June 2017
...of those in August 2011 because of pressures he says police forces are facing following the recent terror attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire. Speaking on the Today programme, he...
Home Office in the media: 22 June 2017
Media coverage relating to the Home Office today focuses on the announcements made during the Queen's Speech. There has also been further coverage of funding for the Metropolitan Police and of the Grenfell Fire tower.
Home Office in the media: 21 June 2017
Today's Home Office media coverage focuses on police resources and an alleged fall in applications for National Insurance numbers from EU migrants.
Metropolitan Police funding
There are a number of remarks in the press and running on broadcast media that suggest that the Metropolitan Police’s budget will be cut by £400million. The Government is not reducing the Metropolitan Police’s budget by £400 million. Police spending …
Breaking news: Finsbury Park incident
Police officers were called to Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park, London, at 00:20 this morning, after a van collided with a group pedestrians outside the Muslim Welfare House. One man was pronounced dead at the scene and eight people …
Statement on HMIC state of policing report
...in the community or between numbers and the quality of service provided. PCCs and Chief Constables have set out their Policing Vision 2025 and the Government is supporting its...
Home Office in the media: 19 April 2017
Today’s Home Office related news includes the arrest of Indian businessman Vijay Mallya, who is facing extradition to India, and comments made by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick around her priorities for the force.
PD Finn: Brandon Lewis writes about new sentencing guidelines
...explore with my Ministerial colleagues and police leaders if there was appropriate action we could take. I undertook to write to all concerned and instructed Home Office officials to look...
Home Secretary: 'We owe our police officers a huge debt of thanks'
...a member of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command. It is impossible to fully describe the debt of gratitude we owe to him. I want to express my heartfelt condolences...