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...nt, death - such as murder, or anything that would not be suitable for a six year old to read. We will not accept anything with any reference to drugs, essentially ask yourself wh...

439 days ago

Stella Hender Interviews

...have helped them out as much as I can. Alan is a great guy, he started as an actor and has a degree in Theatre Management, but life on the road, drugs, alcohol and health problems...

440 days ago

Top-level pages

Amy Rees, Governing Governor - Leadership Award

...Amy Rees was appointed deputy governor of HMP Brixton on 23 March 2008. At the time Brixton was a struggling prison with high staff sick levels, a drugs problem and had experienced a...

442 days ago

DIP Drug Testing and Finance Team - Financial Management Award

...rsquo;Home Office The Offender-based Interventions Unit promotes and supports local approaches that target offenders, particularly those misusing drugs, prolific and other priority...

500 days ago

Blog posts

Perhaps the PM should listen to his new crime adviser before he talks 'zero tolerance'?

...ut police corruption but then applied it across the eight strategies that we were engaging in in New York, including “broken windows”, drugs, gangs, crime, stolen cars an...

172 days ago

News

Partners in crime

...onal and international criminal networks. From drugs smuggling to people trafficki...f you’ve got 15 priorities, which start with drugs and people trafficking and go...enting drug dealing by measuring the weight of drugs seized; others by the number...

141 days ago

New Home Office adviser resignation

...ned from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) yesterday after statin...nd as a result made it impossible to deal with drugs like mephedrone, then it's an...result of people taking mephedrone or similar drugs....

176 days ago

Interviews

Profile: Alan Beith

...e, he welcomes the shift towards payment-by-results (PBR) that’s emerged in the latest round of private prisons contracts and the government’s drugs-treatment strategy.Establishi...

176 days ago

Getting results

...ry Des Browne and veterans minister Derek Twigg. “I looked after armed forces personnel and their dependents, service veterans’ mental health, drugs etcetera. And that led me dow...

176 days ago

Features

Who’s watching your back?

...for questions. Recalling Hogan-Howe’s vow to wage a “war on crime”, CSW asked whether the panel thought that – following the ‘wars’ on drugs and on terrorism – it was a...

119 days ago

Home Office: ministerial profiles

...ge drinking, after licensing powers were moved across from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport; and a shift in drugs policy, which will now focus on getting addicts off drugs rather than just reducing the...

176 days ago

Round_tables

Getting the right results

...and effort required to do it well.”NOMS’ Wheatley added that in his drugs PBR project, it is taking a l...“In the past two months we have identified four outcomes for the NOMS drugs PBR project: getting people o...

163 days ago

Round table: New job description

...al person doesn’t want to put more money into funding drug [treatment], which is why government has to force local authorities to spend money on drugs issues,” Spencer said.One p...

176 days ago

Special_report

Ministry of Justice: non-executive driectors

...eet is a career civil servant: she joined the Home Office in 1974, has led its criminal policy group, and in the 1990s led the government’s anti-drugs strategy from the Cabinet Off...

176 days ago

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Opinion: freedom of speech for scientists

The sacking of the drugs advisory panel chair Professor Nutt sets a dangerous precedent, says Nick Dusic. The government must respect scientists’ freedom of speech Home secretary Alan Johnson’s decision to ask Professor David Nutt to resign as chair of the Advisory Council on Misuse ...

Tags: Science, advice, Policy, evidence, drugs

805 days ago