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People who vilify Britain will be treated as extremists and referred to the Government’s deradicalisation Prevent programme under plans by Rishi Sunak.
Migrants are to be banned from making UK asylum claims at sea after Brexit under a new law that paves the way for border force vessels to intercept them and return them immediately to France.
More than a third of policing chiefs are urging
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to ditch the blanket requirement for all officers to have degrees to stop forces missing out on veterans and older, experienced recruits.
Graduate-only entry to the police risks an influx of recruits who lack the “life experience” and “hardiness” to cope with the increasing violence that frontline officers face, a chief constable has warned.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and face recognition technology is being used for the first time in job interviews in the UK to identify the best candidates.
Two thirds of the Albanian Channel migrants who were electronically tagged to prevent them absconding have cut them off or tampered with them in a bid to escape, Home Office figures show.
Civil servants appointed only six Home Office staff to deal with up to 15,000 Windrush compensation claims despite estimates that more than 20 times that number were needed at the outset, the official spending watchdog has revealed.
key points:
- Ban on care workers bringing in dependents
- Minimum salary for foreign skilled workers hiked to £38.7K
- Shortage occupation list scrapped
- Minimum income to bring in spouse raised to £38,700
- Two year graduate visa reviewed
A police force could become the first in Britain to charge the NHS for the time that officers spend on “unnecessary” mental health call-outs rather than solving crimes.
Police watchdogs have endorsed the tactic of knocking moped thieves off their motorbikes as a "legitimate use of force" for officers with specialist training.
Innocent people bankrupted by legal battles to clear their names in criminal cases should be compensated by the state, says Her Majesty’s chief inspector of police.
Serious terrorists will be forced to serve their entire prison sentences without any prospect of early release as part of a crackdown announced on Tuesday.
Single-sex girls’ schools in England will have to admit biologically-male pupils under Scotland’s proposed new gender recognition laws, says a new report.
Transgender campaigners are being given too great a say over expanding hate crime laws at the expense of the wider public’s views, a top judge has said.
A chief constable has become the first to publicly declare that he will send an officer to investigate every burglary to dispel claims that minor crimes are ignored by police.
Introduce Public Health Act to stop Government imposing Covid restrictions without scrutiny, says
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Lockdown cost UK £280 billion and one in five adults contemplated ending their own lives under restrictions
More than two thirds of the 50 foreign criminals due to be deported to Jamaica have had to be removed from the flight after last-minute legal appeals by human rights lawyers.
Record breaking number of migrants crossing the channel today: 150 intercepted (compared with past peak of 102 in Feb) on 10 vessels, including 50 on one. Adds urgency to efforts to negotiate at sea returns with French
In all this gloom around police misconduct, an example of why we need them: two
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officers Mabz Rahman and Ryan McCarthy saved two people with quickthinking first aid - a heart attack victim and another stabbed in the chest
The Foreign Office has declared Portugal safe for holidays despite the Government axing it from its green list, forcing 30,000 people to cut short their breaks.
Soft justice? The public think prison sentences are getting shorter. The reality is very different. While the average sentence has increased from 13.8 months to 18.9 months since 2009, 75 per cent of the public believe they had got shorter.
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Priti Patel has attacked Labour for preventing the introduction of a law to crack down on killers who refuse to reveal the whereabouts of victims' bodies - as one such notorious murderer comes up for parole.
The historic Dambusters’ officers’ mess is to be listed as a national treasure by the local council as part of an effort to thwart plans to turn the base into an asylum camp.
Pet theft should become a specific offence with sentences of up to two years in jail, say MPs, as they urged ministers to close a legal loophole that allows animal thieves to escape with minor penalties.
Britain is on the verge of joining the EU Covid vaccine passport scheme, sources in Brussels and Westminster have confirmed. The EU Digital Covid Certificate should make travelling in Europe easier and cheaper for British tourists.
The crumbling state of Britain’s courts is delaying trials, a survey has found, amid complaints over leaking lavatories, broken heating, sewage, mould and asbestos.
A record 40 per cent of Britain’s chief constables are now women as police leaders seek to drive sexism and misogyny out of the ranks.
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Police are to be banned from “digital strip searches” of rape victims under a new law to prevent investigators trawling their sex lives, The Telegraph can reveal.
A judge has released a suspected county lines gang leader from jail after his case was delayed by the barristers’ strike - and criticised the Government’s “chronic” underfunding of the criminal justice system.
More than 4,500 migrants who reached the UK this year have been flagged as having “inadmissible” asylum claims but have not been deported by the Home Office.
Police officers have been told to shave off their designer stubble and polish their boots in a “back to basics” plan that has turned one of Britain’s biggest forces into the fastest improving.
The head of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has challenged the social media giants to explain why they can develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) to target adverts at users but not create AI capable of protecting children from child abuse.
The mayor of Calais has blamed Britain for fuelling the Channel small boats crisis because a failure to tighten its laws means it has remained an "El Dorado" for illegal migrants.
Priti Patel has pledged to fast track a new law to crackdown on killers who refuse to reveal the whereabouts of victims' bodies - as one notorious murderer this week began his bid for parole.
Women police officers are to get specially-designed body armour to fit their bodies for the first time with extra protection against the surge in knife crime
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: UK must bring in tests to stop adult migrants claiming to be children. Former home secretary, writing for
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says Britain ‘must implement every law available to us now’
Albanian migrants are walking out of hotels to work on cannabis farms within three days of arriving in the UK across the Channel, an investigation has revealed.
MPs will debate the proposal to suspend the licence of dangerous or drunk motorists until their cases come to court after a campaign for such a change by a family whose son was killed by a drunk and uninsured hit-and-run driver.
Police officers who domestically abuse women face automatic dismissal and a ban on returning to the profession under a new crackdown to restore public confidence.
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: “It seems common sense to me that any officer who abuses a woman should be sacked.”
Eight senior Chinese officials and organisations should face UK sanctions for their role in the repression, torture and abuse of Uyghur Muslims, according to a dossier backed by MPs and presented to Dominic Raab.
Policing lockdown has become a no-win situation for front line police officers.
Those who criticise police officers must try to put themselves in their shoes, says the head of the Police Federation of England and Wales
Families who lie about going on holiday to destinations such as Portugal face up to 10 years in prison – longer than the maximum sentence for sex offences with children or violent firearms crimes
Jailing children should be virtually eradicated and the age of criminality raised from 10 to 14, the Children's Commissioner said as she called for a Scandinavian-style reform of youth justice.
This is a significant move: Rape victims will be given a legal right to refuse to hand over their phones to police under new laws to end “digital strip searches” that have been blamed for plummeting conviction rates.
Men who sexually harass women on the street or on public transport will face two years in jail under a new street harassment offence to be backed by the Government.
Family courts are putting children at risk by allowing abusive parents access to them in custody cases, say victims' watchdogs, as they demand new laws to prioritise child safety.
A record 9,400 foreign criminals are living in the community as attempts to deport them have become bogged down in successful legal challenges, Home Office figures reveal.
Deportation flights to Rwanda could start as soon as this summer, Rishi Sunak has said, as he maintained that thousands of migrants could be removed to the central African state under the scheme.
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A former Border Force chief has warned illegal migrant Channel crossings are now so serious they risk repeating the crisis in the 2000s when up to 2,000 a night attempted to enter the UK from France.
British intelligence services are poised to unmask a number of Chinese spies in the coming months amid concern that a network of operatives is operating in Westminster.
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Low-skilled migrants will be barred from permanently settling in the UK under fixed-term job offers as part of post-Brexit proposals to be outlined today by the Government's migration advisory body.
Border Force officers are to get new powers to forcibly detain migrants at sea, board their vessels and return them to the country from which they came.
TV licence fee evasion accounts for nearly a third of women's convictions, official figures have revealed, prompting calls for its decriminalisation and warnings that the BBC could be guilty of "indirect gender discrimination".
Drivers who cause death by dangerous driving could face life sentences under a private members' bill introduced in the Commons on Tuesday by Theresa May.
Priti Patel has pledged to unveil plans within weeks to double the sentences for offenders who assault emergency workers to two years to “make these thugs think twice.”
Boris Johnson is preparing to launch an ambitious programme to slash reoffending with a pledge to provide “stable” homes, jobs and treatment for prisoners leaving jail.
Football clubs are scrapping sponsorship deals with gambling and drinks firms amid fears that the Government is set to ban betting logos on shirts, new figures reveal
Ministers have accused immigration lawyers of "abusing" the asylum system and wasting courts time, as they revealed 80 per cent of last minute appeals against deportation are rejected by judges.
Police need Sandhurst-style training facility to change ‘troubling’ culture. Lord Herbert, the head of the College of Policing, has called for a purpose-built centre to instil necessary values and leadership skills in all ranks
The number of Channel migrants reaching the UK has doubled this year without the Home Office mounting a single flight to deport any of them since Brexit
Dogs may be our best friends and their unwavering loyalty priceless but thefts of them are not being pursued by police because most are worth under £500 and so rated a minor low level crime, say campaigners.
A powerful plea by 39 charities to protect children online and the risk of failing to enact the online safety bill. Any more delay and a decade of campaigning and hard work risks being lost. Pls retweet.
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Social media bosses will face up to a year in jail if they refuse to provide bereaved parents with data to explain why their children died, under new laws being considered by
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the Technology Secretary.
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Failure to introduce quarantine at the start of the coronavirus outbreak led to 10,000 infected people entering the UK, accelerating the spread of disease, an investigation by MPs has found.
Priti Patel has signalled a return to police bail for suspects, reversing reforms under Theresa May that led to violent and sexual offenders being released into the community without restrictions.