All news on the topic: Home Office

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Migrant children treatment 'gift to traffickers' as experts slam 'casual racism'
Former independent commissioners Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers
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Twisted gunman's family plea 'for action, not words' to prevent future horrors
Apprentice crane operator Jake Davison, 22, used his legally held pump action shotgun to carry out one of the worst gun massacres in Britain for more than a decade
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'Terrifying' warning guns in wrong hands as MP tells of constituent in hiding
The government is under pressure to tighten gun laws after the conclusion of an inquest into the killings in Keyham, Plymouth, by evil Jake Davison, as Labour MP Rachael Maskell said a woman in her constituency has been forced into hiding
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Only 1 in 40 rapes probed by cops led to criminal charges - see rates by area
Labour said rape victims are being 'systematically let down' by the Government as analysis revealed dire detection rates and a postcode lottery for complaints. See how police forces performed in your area
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Families of men who died after being restrained by cops want answers from Sunak
In a report called I Can’t Breathe: Race, Death and British Policing, campaign group Inquest revealed that black people were seven times more likely to die following police restraint
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'Thirteen years of Tory rule have seen round after round of cuts to the police'
Police forces saw a 30% cut in staffing numbers from 2010 to 2022, according to Home Office figures analysed by Labour. The data showed there were 6,252 fewer frontline officers last year compared with 2010
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Huge rise in police officers taking sick leave due to mental health issues
Police officers in England took more than 730,000 sick days last year - up from 320,000 in 2012/13. They're having to cope with 'horrific cases' and 'austerity and budget cuts', says one police federation boss
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Knife crime is growing faster in Tory controlled areas, figures reveal
New analysis shows eight of the ten police forces with the highest increases in knife crime are in areas with Conservative Party Police and Crime Commissioners
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Rishi Sunak 'concerned' Nicola Bulley police shared missing mum's health issues
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is "concerned" after Lancashire Police released sensitive information about missing mum Nicola Bulley's health as part of its investigation
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Labour vows to introduce clean-up squads for fly-tippers in anti-crime plans
Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed will today announce tough measures to ensure offenders are 'met with consequences' - and he will detail plans for people who dump rubbish
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Home Secretary demands answers after Nicola Bulley cops share her health issues
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has reportedly demanded an explanation as to why Lancashire Police released sensitive information about Nicola Bulley's health issues
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Key sign explains how Nicola Bulley cops now know what happened to missing mum
Lancashire Police said they had been "inundated" following the mortgage advisor’s disappearance on the morning of January 27 - but the river remains their main working theory
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Labour vows 13,000 more neighbourhood police as Tories 'fail on knife crime'
Shadow Home Secretary is set to unveil plans to bolster neighbourhood policing teams and ramp up PCSO numbers, saying they "were once the eyes and ears on our streets"
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Do you feel safe where you live? Vote in our poll
Luton has been labelled 'unsafe' by locals as the Bedfordshire town is named the ‘worst place to live in England' - but do you feel safe where you live? Let us know in our poll
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Treasury splashed £3,000 on arty photos when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor
Despite already having access to the vast Government Art Collection - some 14,700 works - the purchase of 13 'fine art photographs' was made at the taxpayers’ expense in March 2021
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Girl, 16, stabbed to death in park - and police want to speak to man and woman
Brianna Ghey, 16, was found dead at Linear Park in Culcheth, Warrington, yesterday afternoon. A murder investigation has been launched and police are appealing for witnesses to come forward
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Teacher's husband 'reported wife for hitting him' before family 'murder-suicide'
Epsom College head Emma Pattison and her daughter Lettie are tragically believed to have been shot and killed by George Pattison before he turned the gun on himself
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Lockdown demise of Kaylea Titford which saw her balloon to 23st before she died
Kaylea Titford, 16, was "trapped" inside her bedroom with no access to the toilet as her father Alun Titford was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence
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Brits warned as passport prices hike up and waiting times remain long
News of the deadline came after the Home Office hiked the price of passport applications, with the fee for a standard online application made from within the UK rising from £75.50 to £82.50 for adults and £49 to £53.50 for children
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Woman who 'died' at care home wakes up when she arrives at funeral home
An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a nursing home and was moved to a funeral home, but soon she started breathing again leaving workers in shock - and now an investigation has been launched
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Holiday warning as passports lost by Home Office reach a 5-year high
The Home Office has reportedly advised that the 10-week deadline introduced during the pandemic would remain in place due to an “elevated” and “volatile” demand for passports
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Tory slams Rishi Sunak's 'phoney war' against European human rights rules
Conservative Jackie Doyle-Price insisted the Prime Minister should tackle the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats by getting the Home Office into shape rather than trying to pick a fight with the courts
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Truss' Home Secretary says her plan 'clearly' wasn't right and ignored 'reality'
In a 4,000 word screed, Liz Truss blamed everyone from the "economic establishment" to Joe Biden for getting in the way of her bonkers plan for unfunded tax cuts - but even her own ministers say her plan was to blame
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Dad who strangled woman to death told police he killed her to 'wash away shame'
Taiba Alali fled her homeland in 2017 to start a new life in Turkey and had planned to wed her Syrian-born boyfriend. But when she returned to support the Iraq football team her family kidnapped her
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Theresa May savages Tories over five year delay to Hillsborough report response
The former Prime Minister commissioned Bishop James Jones to investigate the victims' families experiences - but five years on the Government is yet to issue its response