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Home Office business plan for 2011 - 2015
Posted on 09/11/2010
The Home Office business plan for 2011 -2015 has been published today please visit; http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/about-us/corporate-publications/business-plan-2011-15/business-plan?view=Binary The key points are below. The report outlines how and when their ‘Actions’ and ‘Milestones’ will be published and or completed.
1. Empower the public to hold the police to account for their role in cutting crime
- Introduce directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners and make police actions to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour more transparent
2. Free up the police to fight crime more effectively and efficiently
- Cut police bureaucracy, end unnecessary central interference and overhaul police powers in order to cut crime, reduce costs and improve police value for money. Simplify national institutional structures and establish a National Crime Agency to strengthen the fight against organised crime
3. Create a more integrated criminal justice system
- Help the police and other public services work together across the criminal justice system
4. Secure our borders and reduce immigration
- Control net migration to sustainable levels, in the tens of thousands a year. Limit non-EU economic migrants, and introduce new measures to reduce inflow and minimise abuse of all migration routes, for example the student route. Process asylum applications more quickly, and end the detention of children for immigration purposes
5. Protect people’s freedoms and civil liberties
- Reverse state interference to ensure there is not disproportionate intrusion into people’s lives
6. Protect our citizens from terrorism
- Keep people safe through the Government’s approach to counter-terrorism
The Department will no longer… …impose unnecessary burdens and bureaucracy on the police through top-down targets, the Policing Pledge and a confusing set of national policing bodies and ring-fenced grants …impose unnecessary bureaucracy on local partners responsible for community safety and criminal justice …intrude disproportionately on civil liberties and freedoms through ID cards and the National Identity Register, DNA records, powers of entry, counter-terrorism and security legislation and the Vetting and Barring Scheme.
