All news on the topic: Home Office

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Police target Black kids as they ramp up use of stop and search on children
Home Office data shows Black children made up 20% of those stopped - even though they make up just 6% of the population. The tactic is being used increasingly by officers
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Rapists and burglars are let off hook as suspects prosecuted in 6% of crimes
Home Office figures reveal that just 5.9% of crimes in England and Wales resulted in a suspect being charged or summoned - including just 2.4% of rape allegations
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Knife crime rises to nearly 50,000 cases a year - see how your area's affected
Official Government figures show there were 48,716 knife crime cases recorded across 41 of England and Wales' 43 police forces - up 5% compared to the previous year
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Major change to how you buy booze in pubs and supermarkets could be coming soon
The Home Office is weighing up new rules that could allow facial recognition and age-estimation software to be used in pubs, bars and shops where alcohol is sold
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Keir Starmer vows to finally get zombie knives off streets with proper ban
The Labour leader will work with experts to extend the types of weapons that are banned, as well as taking action to stop kids getting their hands on knives online
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Children forced to share rooms with adults as Home Office gets their age wrong
At least 1,300 unaccompanied children - some as young as 14 - were wrongly put in unsupervised adult accommodation and detention in 18 months after their age
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Woman fatally stabbed in Norwich house is aunt of girls, 7 and 12, also killed
The police found the four bodies at a house in Costessey, near Norwich, Norfolk, on Friday (January 19), with a friend telling the Mirror there were 'no signs' prior to the deaths
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James Cleverly warned not to repeat Suella Braverman errors as review backfires
The head of the police racism watchdog has issued the warning after a review ordered by Suella Braverman into 'woke' policing backfired, instead criticising politicians themselves
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'PM Sunak is ignoring the real will of the people by sticking to Rwanda plan'
After threats of rebellion from right-wing Tories over the Rwanda deportation plan failed to materialise, the bill is now headed for the Lords where members are in a fighting mood, writes Mirror columnist Keir Mudie
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Bungling Tories admit 5,598 asylum seekers have vanished in immigration farce
Tory immigration ministers Tom Pursglove and Michael Tomlinson admitted they don't know where nearly a third of people whose asylum applications were withdrawn are
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PM slapped down by watchdog after 'misleading' claim asylum backlog is cleared
The Prime Minister was accused of telling a 'barefaced lie' when he tweeted that the asylum backlog had been cleared as figures show thousands are still waiting
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Sunak holds bizarre Downing Street press conference to insist Tories are united
PM Rishi Sunak also urged the House of Lords to pass the Rwanda Bill as he delivered a short speech from Downing Street hours after he survived another day of Tory chaos
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​Tory Therese Coffey's attack on Labour backfires in excruciating Commons moment
The Tory MP attempted to scold Yvette Cooper over Rwanda, saying the Shadow Home Secretary couldn't 'get the name of the country right' after referring to Kigali - the capital
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Grooming gangs using vapes to lure children as they offer e-cigarettes for sex
Tory MP Peter Gibson claimed children are being exploited 'as mules to fetch and carry the illegal products' and 'as agents by selling the vapes to their friends'
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'Horrified' daughter of murdered MP suing police for failing to stop terrorist
Ali Harbi Ali had been referred to the Home Office’s deradicalisation scheme Prevent seven years earlier but fooled officials into believing he was not a danger
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People smuggler who stuffed Vietnamese woman behind dashboard of car is jailed
Horrifying images show the shoeless woman, wearing jeans and a jumper, contorted to fit in the space and she was miraculously freed unharmed from the car after officers made the discovery
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Dossier says torture 'rampant' in Rwanda as officials turn blind eye to killings
A report by Human Rights Watch accused the Government of glossing over serious concerns about Rwanda, where it claims there is 'credible information' of torture and killings
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Controversial Rwanda asylum policy explained as Sunak faces crisis if he loses
Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on the Rwanda asylum policy, which has opened up another Tory civil war after the Supreme Court ruled it was unlawful
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Rishi Sunak's make-or-break Rwanda plan still illegal says UN in brutal verdict
Floundering Rishi Sunak has been dealt another blow after the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the Rwanda scheme "does not meet international standards"
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Tories 'brushed aside' refugee killings in Rwanda 'in bid to claim it's safe'
Home Office documents reveal deep concerns about Rwanda's treatment of protesters, the killing of 12 refugees by police and discrimination toward LGBT people were dismissed
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'I fear Bibby Stockholm death won't be the last after speaking to those onboard'
Labour MP Nadia Whittome says that the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, should be closed - warning a suspected suicide onboard last month might not be the last
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Fujitsu still gets contracts worth £100m-a-year despite Post Office scandal
Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says
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Dad crushed to death when he repaired wrong lift at hospital, inquest hears
Dad Sandy Noble was working on a lift at Royal Oldham Hospital when he was crushed in an elevator shaft, with a coroner's court hearing he had been working on the wrong lift at the time
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Andrew 'locks himself away with no idea how to respond' after new Epstein claims
A source tells The Mirror Prince Andrew 'has no idea how to respond' and has not ventured out since bombshell allegations were made this week in the newly released Epstein files
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Migrants outnumbered two to one by guards on deportation flights
Guards hired by outsourcing firm Mitie outnumbered migrants two to one on flights deporting migrants and foreign offenders, with the Government spending more than £3million removing them from the UK