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UK/Home Office | |
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Parent organization | UK |
Subgroups | • HM Passport Office • National Crime Agency • HM Inspectorate of Constabulary • Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs • Animals in Science Committee • Border Force • Disclosure and Barring Service • Gangmasters Licensing Authority • “Independent Police Complaints Commission” • Investigatory Powers Tribunal • Migration Advisory Committee • National Crime Agency • National DNA Database Ethics Group • Office of Surveillance Commissioners • Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner • Police Advisory Board • Police Negotiating Board • Police Arbitration Tribunal • Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal • Serious Fraud Office • Security Industry Authority • Technical Advisory Board • UK Visas and Immigration |
Subpage | •UK/Home Office/Investigatory Powers Tribunal |
The UK governmental department that is responsible for policy issues surrounding immigration, passports, drugs, crime, the police and counterterrorism. |
The current leader of the Home Office is Theresa May (MP). [1]
The Home Office has two main sister departments that are involved in work surrounding immigration, passports and counterterrorism. These are: the Identity and Passport Service and the UK Border Agency.
Goals
The Home Office states that its aims and objectives are based on seven key issues:[2]
- Help people feel safer in their homes and local communities
- Support visible, responsive and accountable policing
- Protect the public from terrorist attack
- Cut crime, especially violent, drug and alcohol-related crime
- Strengthen our borders, fast track asylum decisions, ensure and enforce compliance with our immigration laws, and boost Britain's economy
- Safeguard people's identity and the privileges of citizenship
- Work with our partners to build an efficient, effective and proportionate criminal justice system
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References
- ↑ The Home Office: About us, The Home Office - accessed: 11 October 2009
- ↑ Our Objectives and Values, The Home Office - accessed: 11 October 2009