Two retired Metropolitan Police officers have appeared in court accused of a plot to share indecent images of children with a serving chief inspector, who was found dead before he was charged. Jack Addis, Jeremy Laxton and Richard Watkinson are alleged to have exchanged material with each other on a computer hard drive between January […]
An ex-MP who tried to claim £52,000 of taxpayers’ money to help fund a cocaine habit has been jailed for four years. Jared O’Mara sent fake invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the body which regulates MPs’ business costs and pay. He was thousands of pounds in debt to a drug dealer, his […]
Open Letter to Prisoners My name is Miriam, and I am the new Complaints Deputy Ombudsman at the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO). I joined in January 2023 and my team are responsible for investigating your complaints. In July 2022, we updated our complaints posters and leaflets. I wanted to take this opportunity to say […]
This Joint National Protocol for the Recall Process for Offenders Subject to Licenced supervision has been revised and updated. This revision details the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders in the recall process and reflects current processes and practice. The Joint National Protocol sets out the respective responsibilities of individual agencies when offenders subject to […]
Bishop Desmond Tutu has been widely quoted as saying: ‘There comes a point where we need to stop pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.’ This idea has become influential in health, policing and many other spheres, including youth justice. For me it describes […]
The Sentencing Council has compiled an updated of some criminal justice-related publications routinely produced across government, including by the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics. The data will be a useful resource for journalists, academics, researchers and anyone with an interest in the criminal justice system. The page includes: information […]
Watch the recording here on parliamentlive.tv House of Commons Justice Committee: MPs probe Justice Ministry on: Prison Service Operational Workforce Witnesses were: Witness: Mark Fairhurst, National Chair, POA Witness: Carl Davies, National Officer, Prison Governors Association Session was held at 2.30pm on 7th February 2023. Watch the recording here on parliamentlive.tv Whoops! You need enhanced membership to access this […]
The Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Risley have published their 2021/2022 annual report in which they said: Main areas for development TO THE MINISTER Can you advise what discussions are being held with Home Office ministers in order to help improve the ongoing repatriation/deportation procedures for foreign nationals? This question was referred to the Minister […]
A former MP who submitted fake expenses of £24,000 to fund his cocaine habit has been convicted of fraud. Jared O’Mara, who represented Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019, was thousands of pounds in debt to a drug dealer, the trial at Leeds Crown Court was told. He submitted fraudulent invoices to the Independent Parliamentary […]
Background: The UK government’s Prevent programme, which aims to stop people turning to terrorism, is not doing enough to tackle “non-violent Islamist extremism”, a review has found. The assessment, ordered by Priti Patel as home secretary in 2019 and led by the former Charity Commission chair William Shawcross, found Prevent “has a double standard when dealing with […]
The majority of the service which tries to prevent criminals reoffending in England and Wales is working at excessive capacity, internal figures seen by the BBC show. Some officers in the Probation Service have workloads twice as large as their recommended capacity. A whistleblower warned the risks to the public are “significant”. The government said […]
Current Metropolitan Police Commander Adrian Usher, who between 2016-2021 was Carrick’s boss as the head of the Royal Protection Squad in which Carrick served, insists he never met Carrick once during those five years – well he may come across Carrick during the next three years, as Usher has just been approved as the new […]