POLITICS: Home Office to be split in two

Famously deemed 'not fit for purpose', the Home Office is to be split in two. Home Secretary John Reid announced a new Ministry of Justice would take charge of prisons and criminal justice, leaving a streamlined Home Office with issues like policing and counter-terrorism. The former Home Secretary Charles Clarke branded the move 'irresponsible', warning it could threaten the entire criminal justice system. The announcement came on the day prison numbers reached more than 80 thousand - an all-time high.

ITN Source | March 29, 2007

Tags:. .politics. .move. .system. .numbers. .source