UK/Home Office

UK/Home Office
Parent organization	UK
Headquarters	2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Leader	Home Secretary
Subgroups	• Commission for Countering Extremism • HM Passport Office • HM Inspectorate of Constabulary • Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs • Animals in Science Committee • Border Force • Disclosure and Barring Service • Gangmasters Licensing Authority • “Independent Police Complaints Commission” • Investigatory Powers Tribunal • Migration Advisory Committee • National Crime Agency • National DNA Database Ethics Group • Office of Surveillance Commissioners • Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner • Police Advisory Board • Police Negotiating Board • Police Arbitration Tribunal • Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal • Serious Fraud Office • Security Industry Authority • Technical Advisory Board • UK Visas and Immigration • Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism
Subpage	•UK/Home Office/Investigatory Powers Tribunal
The UK governmental department that is responsible for policy issues surrounding immigration, passports, drugs, crime, the police and "counter-terrorism".

The Home Office tweet announcing that they would set up a new commission to "counter extremism". Reaction centred on the choice of such a militaristic image and the failure to explain "extremism" was.

The Home Office is a UK government department involved in work surrounding immigration, passports and "counter-terrorism". These are: the Identity and Passport Service and the UK Border Agency.

Commission for Countering Extremism

Full article: Commission for Countering Extremism

In 2017, following the 2017 Manchester attack, the government announce plans to launch a new "Commission for Countering Extremism" to safeguard British values from "extremism".

Goals

The Home Office states that its aims and objectives are based on seven key issues:

• Help people feel safer in their homes and local communities
• Support visible, responsive and accountable policing
• Protect the public from terrorist attack
• Cut crime, especially violent, drug and alcohol-related crime
• Strengthen our borders, fast track asylum decisions, ensure and enforce compliance with our immigration laws, and boost Britain's economy
• Safeguard people's identity and the privileges of citizenship
• Work with our partners to build an efficient, effective and proportionate criminal justice system

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