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Group.png UK/Home Office   Powerbase WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Home Office.svg
Parent organizationUK
Headquarters2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
LeaderHome Secretary
Subgroups• Commission for Countering Extremism.png Commission for Countering Extremism
•  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
• Sfo.png Serious Fraud Office
•  Security Industry Authority
•  Technical Advisory Board
•  UK Visas and Immigration
•  Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism
SubpageUK/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 tweet announcing that they would set up a new commission to "counter extremism". Reaction centred on the choice of such a militaristic image and the failure to explain "extremism" was.[1]

The Home Office is a UK government department involved in work surrounding immigration, passports and "counter-terrorism". These are: the Identity and Passport Service and the UK Border Agency.

Commission for Countering Extremism

Full article: Commission for Countering Extremism

In 2017, following the 2017 Manchester attack, the government announce plans to launch a new "Commission for Countering Extremism" to safeguard British values from "extremism".

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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