UK/Home Office

UK/Home Office
Parent organization	UK
Headquarters	2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Leader	Home Secretary
Subgroups	•  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 •  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 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.

The Home Office is a UK government department that had 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. In 2017, 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:

• 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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