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A programme to equip frontline police officers with mobile devices, such as BlackBerrys and personal data assistants, has achieved a basic level of benefits. However, as the benefits for most forces do not extend beyond this basic level, then value for money has not yet been achieved from the £80 million of expenditure

Work-related benefits were being claimed last year by more than 370,000 migrants who had originally came to the UK to work, study or visit

Following the announcement that UK border controls had been relaxed without proper authorisation during the summer of 2011, the Home Affairs committee held a number of evidence sessions to establish the facts of the case and determine what had led to such a situation occurring

 

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The coroner at the 7/7 London bombings inquests has formally ruled that the 52 people who died in the suicide attacks were unlawfully killed (May 6th)

 

Facebook and the Home Office-backed centre for child protection join forces to help make the internet safer for young users

 

New plans to support the rehabilitation of offenders and the reduction of reoffending were outlined today by Justice Minister Lord McNally

 

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the first UK police force to successfully implement a Two Way Interface (TWIF) with the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) case management system, supporting the delivery of electronic case files

 

Chris Bryant MP, Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister, commenting on the NIESR and MAC reports on immigration yesterday, said

 

Police custody provision in Northumbria needed a greater focus on risk assessment, said Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Dru Sharpling, HM Inspector of Constabulary, publishing the report of an inspection into custody suites in Northumbria

 

Fire Minister Bob Neill has re-affirmed that the Fire and Rescue Service has been given some protection in the Government's recent spending settlement

 

Plans were outlined today to seek views on the European Data Protection Directive and the Data Protection Act to ensure that current laws continue to safeguard people’s personal data in the 21st Century

 

The energy secretary, Chris Huhne, is to face a criminal charge in connection with allegedly dodging a speeding offence, the director of public prosecutions has announced

 

Latest Home Office statistics show that there were 136,261 police officers (full-time equivalent) as of 30 September 2011 in the 43 territorial police forces of England and Wales. This represents a decline of 6,012 when compared with September 2010

 
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