Home Office in the media: 22 August 2018

Today’s Home Office media story is the Home Secretary’s letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee.
In the media today there is coverage of the Home Office announcement on police pursuits and the anniversary of the Manchester bombing.
Today’s Home Office media stories include comments made on routinely arming of police and Tier 2 visas.
In the media today there is coverage surrounding the publication of Big Brother Watch’s report into facial recognition technology and research by the Internet Watch Foundation into the live streaming of child abuse.
Home Secretary, Amber Rudd today chaired the first Serious Violence Taskforce - a coalition of government ministers, cross-party MPs, police leaders, local government and the voluntary sector – which will ensure sustained, swift and decisive action against violent crime. Together …
At today’s launch of the Serious Violence Strategy, the Home Secretary made reference to the following piece of Home Office work around police resources: The provisional funding settlement in December 2017 followed a robust assessment which included a period of …
Today’s Home Office top stories are on violent crime rates in London and on the deadline for companies to disclose their gender pay gaps.
The BBC has published a story on police releasing people arrested for violent crimes without bail since the 28-day limit on pre-charge bail was introduced. We have a statement on changes to the law surrounding pre-charge bail.