Home Office

A wanted Mafia boss found living in suburbia west of London could walk free on Friday because of legal problems with the warrant for his arrest.

Home Secretary Theresa May is accused of a “cover-up” after she used legal powers to redact parts of a critical report into Britain’s cross-Channel border controls.

A crackdown on immigrants by the Home Office provokes a backlash from activists as one group of immigrants actively seek out and disrupt immigration checks.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg criticises a Home Office scheme in which vans bore billboards encouraging illegal immigrants to return “home”, insisting no Liberal Democrats were aware of the plan.

A report into Feltham young offenders’ institution finds high levels of violence, including “unacceptably high” use of batons by staff, and young people living in fear.

The new minimum income threshold of £18,600 has forced separation between thousands of British citizens and their families, says a cross-party group of MPs, which is calling for an urgent review.

MPs hit out at the police investigation into the Plebgate row, with one saying Andrew Mitchell was a victim of media spin “at the highest level” of the Met, and another suggesting Channel 4 take over.

After lawyers have criticised cases of young victims being aggressively cross examined in sex abuse trials, guidance on the way vulnerable witnesses should be treated in court is due to be published.

Former Met Police Commissioner Lord Blair tells Channel 4 News that there were institutional failures within the police force in the 1980s, but that the force has since been cleared of corruption.

Radical cleric Abu Qatada promises to leave Britain when a new treaty offering guarantees that evidence obtained through torture will not be used against him becomes law, says his lawyer.

The chief inspector of constabulary calls for a focus on crime prevention. But the government’s focus on data and budget cuts has made this more difficult, the Police Federation tells Channel 4 News.

Downing Street is considering a temporary withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights so that Abu Qatada can be deported. But legal experts tell Channel 4 News it is “highly unlikely”.

Police are to introduce a new national system to grade missing children, which they argue will free up resources and target attention on those at greatest risk.

Efforts to tackle the “shocking underworld” of modern slavery and sexual exploitation that exists in the UK, are failing, an independent think tank claims.

Abu Qatada is arrested for breaching his bail terms days before the latest government effort to have the radical Muslim preacher extradited.