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Government also plans to make greater use of facial recognition technology as part of crime crackdown bill

Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party appear to have concluded, on the basis of a solitary and surprise by-election victory, to trash the Government’s record on the environment. It is a curious decision — and one that threatens not only Britain’s ability to combat catastrophic climate change, but also ignores…

Minister claims 1 million policing hours could be saved a year, but coroner sounds alarm after woman’s suicide

Response to mental health calls to be cut down to 20 to 30 per cent

Plan aims to free up estimated million hours a year of police time but experts have raised concerns

Ministers said it is up to police forces in England and Wales along with healthcare boards to work out when and how to put the changes into place.

More high visibility patrols are needed in London’s violent crime hotspots to counter a new surge in teenage killings in the capital, the policing minister warned.

Policing minister Chris Philp said it is reasonable for spectators to protect the event they have gone to see.

The policing minister, MP Chris Philp has backed spectators and sports fans ‘doing a Jonny Bairstow’ to stop protestors from disrupting sports matches.