A culture change rather than extra resources is needed if police forces are to transform communities into places where people feel safe from crime, the home secretary told a conference this week.
The stage is set for a showdown between ministers and town hall leaders after authorities defied government orders not to set council tax increases above 5% and issued warnings that budgets could not...
Plans to sell off most of London's police stations and relocate officers to supermarkets and city centre kiosks, have been dismissed as 'clumsy, ham-fisted and ignorant' by the leader of the...
European Commission experts believe there is a 'strong chance' that the government's tough stance on immigrants from new European Union member states will be challenged in the courts.
The prison population in England and Wales reached an all-time high this week pushing the Prison Service close to 'unsafe' levels and a full-blown crisis, experts warned.
The Criminal Records Bureau guaranteed its place in the history of government disasters this week with revelations of a £68.2m deficit, qualified accounts, and doubts over its real impact in...
Ian Perkin, a former hospital finance director at St George's Hospital Trust in London and self-declared whistle-blower, said he would 'never again' encourage NHS staff to report irregular management...
'Fundamental flaws' in the London Borough of Southwark's planning processes meant auditors were 'unable to refute entirely allegations of corrupt or improper practices' after officers granted...
John Prescott's department is this week trying to persuade the home secretary to flex his political muscle and join the battle to avoid another year of politically damaging council tax hikes, Public...
Britain's commissioner for correctional services has strongly denied MPs' accusations that the treatment of youth offenders is a costly, ineffective failure.
Normal political debate has pretty much been forgotten amid the tumult of the Hutton Inquiry report and the vote over university top-up tuition fees, but in recent days senior Labour figures have...
London motorists who obstruct traffic flows by blocking box junctions or disregarding one-way signs will have to hand over £100 fines to local authorities from April.
The UK is not a 'soft touch' for asylum seekers, but there are systematic 'weaknesses' in government policy that need rectifying to restore public confidence in the system, MPs have reported.
The chief inspector of prisons has lent her support to the proposed restructuring of the prison and probation services, but warned that the independence of the inspectorate must not be compromised.
Capita, the private sector partner running the Criminal Records Bureau, has been paid a total of £12m to 'compensate' it for the use of paper-based forms, which it claims led to the backlogs in...
A council's tenants have delivered a major blow to the government's housing strategy after rejecting proposals for an arm's-length management organisation on January 9.
Sir Michael Bichard, the former civil servant charged with leading the inquiry established in the wake of Ian Huntley's conviction, has promised to be fast, thorough and tough.
