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Home Office figures reveal that just 5.9% of crimes in England and Wales resulted in a suspect being charged or summoned - including just 2.4% of rape allegations

Guards hired by outsourcing firm Mitie outnumbered migrants two to one on flights deporting migrants and foreign offenders, with the Government spending more than £3million removing them from the UK

The Home Office appears to have issued an embarrassing climbdown on a hike in the threshold for family visas, quietly announcing it will raise it to a lower figure

The Liberal Democrats blamed years of Tory cuts leaving local police forces 'overstretched and unable to focus on frontline crime like burglaries'

Almost 10,000 bonuses were given to passport officials last year despite 360,000 people waiting longer than they should have done to get their documents, ruining travel plans

Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been accused of being 'asleep at the wheel' as new analysis found over three quarters of burglaries and car thefts went unsolved in 12 months

Convicts including killers and rapists will be deported and banned from the streets in a new plan laid out today as ministers battle serious capacity issues in prisons

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said plans would end the 'cycle of criminality' triggered by a 'merry-go-round of short sentences' as ministers battle to solve overcrowding in prisons

The under-fire Home Secretary had previously claimed that the Bibby Stockholm would be in place in Portland Port, Dorset, by now - but the barge is still 120 miles away undergoing checks

The demand came in a letter signed by Tory Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland and Labour former Defence Minister Kevan Jones, a member of the Intelligence and Security

The Home Secretary has travelled to capital Kigali, where she hopes the UK can start sending asylum seekers by the summer after more than a year of legal wrangling

Critics have warned proposed legislation banning people who come here on small boats from making asylum claims will bring chaos while failing to end the dangerous Channel crossings

Nine serial offenders - including a sex attacker with 203 previous offences - were handed suspended sentences or community orders instead of jail time in 2021, figures show

Analysis by the House of Commons Library found that the number of community police officers have fallen by more than 4,000 since 2015 across England and Wales. See how your area has been affected

The Lib Dems branded the target a 'broken promise' as forces rush to close a gap of nearly 5,000 officers in the final six months of the scheme. The Home Office insists it's all on track