The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, introduced in Parliament on the 30 th of January, has given wide counterterrorism-inspired powers to border enforcement agencies in the UK. Angela ...

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The 2025 British Retail Consortium Crime Survey found that retail crime is ‘spiralling upwards yet again’, citing a rise in customer theft incidents from 16.7 to 20.4 million in the last year alone.

Misconduct by police officers in England and Wales has increased by almost a third since last year, with the Home Office recording 31% more incidents in the year ending in March 2024. A total of 1,698 ...

Sixteen environmental activists jailed for nonviolent protests are appealing their sentences in a landmark hearing in the Court of Appeal. The appellants, including high-profile figures from climate ...

Polling has revealed that public support for bringing back capital punishment for certain crimes has increased from 50 to 55%, compared to its last poll in autumn 2023. The data, gathered by More in ...

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The justice minister has promised to ‘restore confidence’ in the troubled miscarriage of justice watchdog after its chair finally stepped down early after months of pressure. In an exchange in the ...

MPs have called for parliamentary scrutiny of the appointment of chair to the troubled miscarriage of justice watchdog. As reported earlier this month, Helen Pitcher finally stepped down as chair of ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

Mistrust in the police was the motivator of children participating in riots last summer according to a new report by the Children’s Commissioner. Children as young as 11 participated in the riots that ...

Arrests of teenagers by the Metropolitan Police in London for knife offences have fallen despite a rise in knife crime, The Times has reported. There was a 33% decrease in arrests of under-18s for ...