UK/Home Office

UK/Home Office
UK/Home Office
Parent organization	UK
Headquarters	2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Leader	Home Secretary;
Subgroups	• HM Passport Office; • 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; • Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism
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 "counter-terrorism".

The Home Office is a UK government department that has two main sister departments that are involved in work surrounding immigration, passports and "counter-terrorism". 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:^[1]

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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