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The department works to counter terrorism, cut crime, provide effective policing, secure the UK's borders and protect personal identity.
The Home Office is headed by the Home Secretary and five other Home Office ministers. It's one of the largest government departments and has a fairly complex structure.
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HOME OFFICE NEWS
Deportation guards ''need monitoring''
MPs question behaviour of guards working for the private security firm G4S on behalf of the UK Border Agency
May: ''Our police reforms are working''
The radical reform of police services will deliver a force better able to fight crime, the Home Secretary claimed
Olympics to 'borrow' public sector spectrum
MoD and Home Office to give up part of their share of the UK's radio spectrum for use during the 2012 Olympic Games
''Communication breakdown'' hit border checks
MPs are shocked by the scale of the border control checks that were waived by the UK Border Agency
'U-turn' on taxi driver CRBs is welcomed
Councils will be free to ask for enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks when licensing taxi drivers
LATEST HOME OFFICE FEATURES
Police forces are ''rising to the spending challenge''
Police forces are improving services and still making significant savings, the policing minister Nick Herbert said, claiming that a transformation in police ways of working was well underway. Here's the full speech
Aiming for confidence
In times of economic turmoil it is crucial that taxpayers' money is used effectively. Graham Kemp, head of public sector, SAS UK, explains how the government can make the most of data to ensure that public funds are protected from fraud and error
Censoring freedom is not the answer to online piracy
The answer to protecting children and copyright is not to censor free speech with crude blacklists, or to routinely invade the privacy of every internet user, says Nick Pickles
Theresa May
Home Secretary
James Brokenshire
Crime and security minister
Nick Herbert
Policing minister
Damian Green
Immigration minister
Lynne Featherstone
Equalities minister
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