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Correspondence with HM Chief Inspector Andy Cooke regarding the use of police powers to retain biometrics for those arrested for serious offences.
From 31 December 2023 breeding, selling, advertising, rehoming, abandoning and allowing an XL Bully dog to stray will be illegal.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer’s remarks at a reception at No. 10 Downing Street to celebrate Journalism Matters Week
The Home Secretary convened an event in partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation.
The Security Industry Authority launches a series of stories to mark 20 years since private security industry regulation was introduced.
In Journalism Matters Week, new plans are being set out to boost protections for reporters against rising threats and abuse.
An independent study warns that the plan to abolish biometrics and surveillance safeguards will leave the UK without oversight.
Over 120,000 former offenders will find it easier to get work and turn their lives away from crime following a change in the law.
The Home Secretary hosted an event with the Internet Watch Foundation, and committed to clamp down on the spread of AI-generated child sex abuse material.
Magistrates will soon have the option to record case outcomes for themselves when deciding cases using the Single Justice Procedure (SJP).
Policing minister challenges police to double retrospective facial recognition searches to track down known offenders by May 2024.
The policing minister writes to police chiefs to set out the importance of harnessing innovative technologies to support police in preventing and solving crimes.
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act received Royal Assent on Thursday 26 October.
The Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Chris Heaton-Harris MP, has today announced the appointment of a new Chair and seven new Board Members to National Museums Northern Ireland.
On Wednesday 11 October a Belfast man was ordered to pay £8,256 within three months by Laganside Crown Court or face a jail sentence.
Leading criminal judge, Sarah Munro KC, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor to chair the public inquiry into the wrongful conviction of Andrew Malkinson today (26 October 2023).
Targeted uniformed patrols in hotspot areas have helped drive down antisocial behaviour by over 30% in some areas, according to reports from policing.…
Fees for barristers who help vulnerable witnesses and victims to pre-record a cross examination will rise to £1,000, the government announced today (25 October 2023).
An exciting opportunity to be Assistant Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary has become available.
The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of Johanna Robinson as a non-judicial member of the Sentencing Council with experience of the promotion of the welfare of victims of crime.
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