Crime

Satellites will track sex offenders - 27/06/00 Convicted paedophiles face wearing ankle tag for rest of their lives which warns if they enter banned areas

Straw urges crackdown on louts - 28/06/00

Britain is capital of crime, says US TV channel - 29/06/00

Public to have a say on burglary sentences - 29/06/00 Domestic break-ins fell by 5 per cent in 1998, but still accounted for almost 10 per cent of all crimes

Straw tells councils to 'get tough' on louts - 29/06/00

Violent Britain 'so bad it makes US look tame' - 29/06/00 Report refers to nation of thugs, crooks and innocent victims of tidal crime-wave

Woman's 999 call 'ignored' - 30/06/00 Police failed to respond to emergency call from Newcastle home just 200 yards from their station

Blair: Fine louts on the spot - 30/06/00

Police reject plan for fines on louts - 02/07/00

Plan to define degrees of rape - 02/07/00

JPs in Straw's back yard are most lenient - 02/07/00 Home Office figures show home secretary's own constituents least likely to be punished by magistrates

Slobs have licence to litter in filthy UK - 02/07/00

Blair's crime crackdown - 03/07/00 Tories attack Blair crime summit 'blunder'

Blair forced to back down over on-the-spot fines - 04/07/00

Police chief tell Blair spot fines are 'not a goer' - 04/07/00 Officers tell Prime Minister in Downing Street meeting that idea is not workable

Anti-hooligan measures to be revealed - 04/07/00

Robbers 'unaware of effect on victims' - 04/07/00

Law to stop suspect hooligans travelling - 05/07/00

Eviction of nuisances 'no help to neighbours' - 05/07/00 Culprits often move straight back into area, research shows

Defence lawyers face 10% pay cut - 05/07/00 Earnings of Queen's Counsel and junior advocates could be cut under proposals from Lord Chancellor

Soccer thugs to lose passports for 10 years - 05/07/00 Police will be given powers under emergency measures aimed at stopping football hooliganism

MPs refuse to play ball - 05/07/00 Jack Straw faces fierce battle to get his legislation through Parliament

Police dismiss Labour proposals - 05/07/00 Government abandons two more crime fighting proposals after chief constables say they are unworkable

Labour dubbed 'government of gimmicks' - 05/07/00

Blair son arrested and gives false name - 06/07/00

Blair's son 'drunk and incapable' - 06/07/00

'Yobwatch' plan to be unveiled - 07/07/00

MPs cry foul as hooligan Bill is rushed - 07/07/00 Government will try to force sweeping laws through Commons next week

Hooligan Bill unveiled - 07/07/00

Blairs to face police with Euan - 07/07/00

Straw seeks redress for crime victims - 08/07/00

Have-a-go minister chases down crime - 09/07/00 Politician urges the public to take the fight against crime literally, despite broken leg from his own attempt

Police forces cut jobs as pension bill hits £1bn - 09/07/00 Numbers slashed as forces struggle to meet £1 billion yearly commitments

Blair faces cronyism gibes over Birt's job - 10/07/00 Fresh accusations of spin as former BBC Director-General takes post as powerful new adviser on crime

Birt crime job offer criticised - 10/07/00 "Appointing Mr Birt to work as an adviser for one day a week hardly shows a commitment to reducing crime" - Ann Widdecombe

John Birt: Blair's 'crimebuster' - 10/07/00 The choice of John Birt has surprised many and been hailed as an inspired and overdue appointment by no one

Punishment won't be fitting the crime in future, just the whine - 10/07/00 an identical offence could be dealt with very differently depending on the whim of a victim

Crime figures rising say Tories - 10/07/00 at least 183,000 more offences were committed last year than in the previous 12 months

Government 'plans to hide crime figures' - 10/07/00 more evidence that Tony Blair ran "a government of spin and media manipulation".

Huge rise in violent crime alarms Blair - 11/07/00

Labour lawyers turn on Irvine - 11/07/00

Tory anger at Birt's job as 'crime-buster' - 11/07/00

Strikers could be classed as terrorists - 11/07/00

Parents count £10,000 cost of teenage party - 12/07/00 Police fail to respond to emergency calls of a 'disturbance' as young revellers destroy family home

Chaotic police records hide true extent of crimewave - 13/07/00 'Explosive' independent report shows crime figures at least 20 per cent higher than those recorded by police

Law and order - 13/07/00 Tough on the critics of crime measures

Straw concedes ground in Bill on hooligans - 13/07/00 New laws will expire after five years

Justice to be swifter - 14/07/00 Most serious criminal cases to be fast-tracked to Crown Court within weeks, under Home Office plan

MPs back football thug crackdown - 14/07/00

CPS to appeal against 'landmark' speed ruling - 15/07/00

Headmistress faces jail for slapping boy - 15/07/00 Primary head teacher convicted of striking 'difficult' ten-year-old child across face

Law lends far too much credence to pupils, experts say - 15/07/00 Threat of jail to Marjorie Evans brings law into disrepute says former Law Society President

Police DNA failure lets criminals go free - 15/07/00 Forces cannot trace 30% of positive 'hits' returned by scientists

Straw revamps hooligan law - 15/07/00

Labour plans to jail killer drivers for life - 16/07/00

Brown spends to cut crime - 16/07/00 Cash for police recruitment at the centre of new spending commitments to be unveiled on Tuesday

NHS supplies addicts with £11m of heroin - 16/07/00 Drug being prescribed in increasing amounts in attempt to cut related crime and reduce social damage caused by abuse

By the left - delinquents could be marched into the cadets - 16/07/00 Miscreants could be sent to join military groups under plans to instil self-discipline being drawn up by ministers

New rights will make for bad law, say Tories - 16/07/00 Miss Widdecombe said a ruling on Friday, in which two drivers had their speeding fines overturned because their human rights had been "infringed", was the first of many "nonsense" cases

Surveillance cameras will 'predict crimes' - 16/07/00

Police to relax rules on prints - 16/07/00

Rape victims will be offered new identities - 17/07/00

Brown plans big spending increase in war on crime - 17/07/00 Law and order budget wins big boost as figures reveal rise in violence

Blair's wish list achieves patchy results on crime - 17/07/00 ***** times

More women report domestic violence - 17/07/00

Residents issue crime ultimatum - 17/07/00 Hundreds of people in a small rural town [Edenbridge, Kent] are threatening to withhold council tax payments in protest over crime and cuts in policing

Slapped boy was 'little monster' - 17/07/00 Mother pleads for headmistress to be spared jail

Big rise in violent crime - 17/07/00

Crime statistics deal new blow to Blair - 17/07/00

Robbery and violent crime soars - 18/07/00

Boost for anti soccer hooligan bill in Commons - 18/07/00

Blair hit by sharp rise in violent crime - 18/07/00 Government's credibility on law and order seriously undermined by new figures

Police figures - Time to compare - The troublespot - 18/07/00 Teenage gangs that spit abuse and run amok

Crime desks stop work at 8pm - 18/07/00

Fixed jail terms 'create injustice' - 18/07/00

Bank details will be checked in anti-fraud drive - 18/07/00 Telephone records and water bills would also be subject to government scrutiny under new proposal

Law and order: Hundreds more police on beat - 19/07/00

Paedophile allowed to work as priest - 19/07/00

Woolf's clothing 'outmoded' - 19/07/00 Judges' wigs and gowns are outdated, says Lord Chief Justice, reopening debate over judicial dress

Crown abandons 10% of court cases - 19/07/00 Rise in aborted prosecutions costs millions of pounds

Shake-up after day release killing - 19/07/00 Convicted killer killed a woman while on day release from prison

Jailed murderer killed again on a day's parole - 19/07/00

Straw promises 4,000 more police - 19/07/00

Hanratty family dismiss DNA 'proof' of his guilt - 20/07/00 Campaigners dismiss new DNA evidence that directly links James Hanratty to the 38-year-old crime

Tests suggest Hanratty was the 1961 A6 killer - 20/07/00

Straw to fund drive for 4,000 more police - 20/07/00 Home Secretary attempts to restore Government's record on law and order with push for extra officers

Straw cannot guarantee more police - 20/07/00

Police attack on killer's release - 22/07/00 Double murderer released after serving 15 years of life sentence is back in custody after killing prostitute

'Children at risk' from shame list - 23/07/00 A UK newspaper's campaign to "name and shame" convicted paedophiles could make the sex offenders more dangerous

Young offenders may lose licences - 23/07/00

Top security hospitals 'should be closed down' - 25/07/00

Judge rules that young killers can be named - 25/07/00

Norfolk farmer will serve just eight years - 27/07/00

New laws to clamp down on sex abusers - 27/07/00

Rape reforms would protect drunk women - 27/07/00

Red tape 'hampers anti-crime drive' - 27/07/00 Report claims Government initiatives and lack of consultation detracts from objectives

Police to be stopped from 'writing off' reported crimes - 01/08/00

Bungle by CPS ends murder appeal - 02/08/00

Stalkers may have to sign offender register - 02/08/00

Organised crime rises as police find 900 gangs - 03/08/00

The criminal networks spreading across Britain - 03/08/00

Police 'not playing their part in pact to beat art thieves' - 04/08/00

Treasures that fund the drug trade - 04/08/00

Town seeks full-time wardens to restore ruined Cornish idyll [Mullion] - 04/08/00

Legal delays save Bulger killers from jail - 06/08/00

Freedom is in sight as boy killers come of age - 06/08/00

Drug tests to cut re-offending by ex-prisoners - 06/08/00

Victim, 95, to lose benefit over award - 05/08/00 A 95-YEAR-OLD man who was beaten with his walking stick by a violent patient as he slept in a hospital bed has been told his benefits are to be cut because he was given compensation

Court protection for rape victims - 07/08/00

IR£16m crime assets are seized - 09/08/00 Ireland is the only European country to have legislation which puts the onus on criminals to prove that their assets have been gained legally

Police question target of 9,000 extra recruits - 12/08/00

Hague urges life terms for paedophiles - 12/08/00

Computer to judge risk posed by criminals - 18/08/00

Failing jails condemned - 24/08/00

Tories plan to curb 'troublesome' travellers - 25/08/00

Villagers applaud as police move in - 25/08/00

One in four shopkeepers is a victim of violence - 25/08/00

'The law protects criminals more than us' - 25/08/00

Shopkeepers in fear of High Street robbery - 25/08/00

War criminals may be sent to jail in Britain - 26/08/00

Hooligan bill comes into force - 28/08/00

Recruitment drive for UK police - 30/08/00

Who would be a PC? - 30/08/00

'People will put their needs above the rule of law' - 31/08/00

Straw launches £7m campaign to boost police - 31/08/00

Blair backs police recruitment drive - 31/08/00

Carnival stabbing incidents rise - 31/08/00

Carnival police 'told not to search gunmen' - 01/09/00

Crime and Punishment: Turning a blind eye may store up trouble - 01/09/00

'Softly softly' orders on weapons put the public in danger - 01/09/00

Notting Hill: high jinks as police look the other way - 01/09/00

£109m to expand DNA database - 01/09/00

Carnival police deny control problem - 02/09/00

Carnival police 'told to ignore use of crack' - 03/09/00

'We have stumbled but learned, so give us credit where it's due' by Ian Blair, Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police - 03/09/00

Illegal drugs 'being taken by 10pc of 11-year-olds' - 04/09/00

Police force bars recruits who have worked overseas - 04/09/00

Minister defends policing at carnival - 04/09/00

Blair to toughen supervision of freed prisoners - 05/09/00

Tattoos are the mark of a thug, say children - 05/09/00

Police 'need more officers on beat' - 05/09/00

Straw's brother on sex register - 09/08/00

Snatch 'glamorises' cinema crime - 08/09/00

Prisoners may win the right to vote - 12/09/00

Straw urges victims to challenge police - 12/09/00

Prisons reject rights warning - 12/09/00

Met chief casts doubt on future of carnival - 15/09/00

Fingerprint agency 'a threat to justice' - 15/09/00

270 more wardens to join community crime patrols - 18/09/00 Mullion is to receive £102,000 for two part-time wardens

Drug dealer who made £640m gets 20 years - 19/09/00

Trial by jury bill faces defeat - 19/09/00

End mandatory jail terms, urges Hughes - 20/09/00

GM battle fears as Melchett is cleared - 21/09/00

Verdict is seen as a wrecking charter - 21/09/00

Video could help police catch carnival killers - 21/09/00

Stop-and-search police are 'rude but not racist' - 21/09/00 blacks and Asians are not targeted in use of powers

Violent drunks who blight the streets of Britain - 22/09/00

£45m plan to tackle young criminals - 25/09/00

Top cops defend search tactics - 01/10/00

Festive clampdown on begging - 08/10/00

Call to jail bird persecutors - 09/10/00

Drug profit confiscations outlawed - 13/10/00 European Convention on Human Rights

Blair in crime proceeds pledge - 14/10/00

Crime figures 'drop 10%' - 16/10/00

10 per cent drop in crime masks a rise in violence - 17/10/00

Crime surveyed - 17/10/00

Murders in US fall as zero tolerance pays off - 17/10/00

Rural crime fight held up by red tape - 18/10/00

Behaviour order for 10-year-old tearaway - 18/10/00

Bailed rapist attacked victim again - 10/20/00

Tories question Bulger ruling - 26/10/00

Police cut response to burglar alarms - 29/10/00

Ex-minister Tony Banks mugged - 01/11/00

MP Banks robbed in street by knife gang - 02/11/00 ...coincided with the launch of an anti-mugging campaign by the local Newham council called "Respect"

Police to recruit ex-criminals - 12/11/00

The Met lifts ban on recruits with convictions - 13/11/00

Still no simple answer to the young offender - 14/11/00 Greater public tolerance towards young male offenders has been demanded by Sir David Ramsbotham, chief inspector of prisons

Straw 'shocked' over stabbed boy - 29/11/00 He spoke ahead of a speech in which he will attack the "circle of acquiescence" which leads people to tolerate crime.

Damilola 'witness' comes forward - 30/11/00 Damilola came to the UK in search of a greener pasture only to be killed in a brutal manner

Crime blitz hints at early poll - 06/12/00

Hague: Yob crackdown is 'all spin, no delivery' - 06/12/00

Straw defends curfew plan - 07/12/00

Straw admits his curfew mistake - 11/12/00

Hague takes aim at Lawrence report - 14/12/00 "officers are reluctant to stop and search black suspects and consequently there has been a significant rise in crime in urban areas"

Hague rounds on 'liberal elite' - 14/12/00 for creating an atmosphere of political correctness which has allowed crime to flourish

Police morale 'worst yet' - 17/12/00

Support for Hague's Damilola claim - 18/12/00 there was a shortage of 20 police officers on the housing estate where schoolboy Damilola Taylor was killed

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Hague calls for more jail terms - 27/12/00

Met to get stop-search guidelines - 28/12/00

Crimebusters seek £30m to bring 'untouchables' to book - 31/12/00

Tories target litter louts - 31/12/00

Anti-truancy drive cuts crime - 03/01/01

Straw's crime plan a 'gimmick' - 10/01/01

Labour pledge failure defended - 12/01/01

'A lot of these schemes are gimmicks' - 14/01/01 Jack Straw promised to reduce the time taken to deal with young offenders from 142 to 71 days... he has not kept his promise

Sharp rise in violent crime - 16/01/01

The UK's crime hotspots - 16/01/01

Crime figures: National and regional - 16/01/01

'Ethnic' police recruits are Irish - 17/01/01

Muggings soar 21pc as violent crime rises - 17/01/01

Why increase in police recruitment may not arrest the problem - 17/01/01

New row over stop and search - 18/01/01

Mounted police are back in the saddle after 20 years - 29/01/01

WPc gets on her bike to sort out vandals - 29/01/01

Yobs targeted by Straw - 29/01/01

Life of Crime - 02/02/01

Damilola murder suspect 'has fled abroad' - 04/02/01

Prescott to let convicts jump housing queue - 04/02/01 !!!!!!

Points to determine length of sentence - 11/02/01

Payouts may rise for crime victims - 17/02/01

Has the village policeman gone for ever? - 17/02/01

New rights for crime victims - 17/02/01

Lord Birt plans top-up sentences for repeat criminals - 18/02/01

'Monopoly' anarchists plan May Day havoc in bid to wreck polling - 18/02/01

Straw signs death knell for death penalty - 26/01/99

Capital Punishment - UK

Police to use pepper spray - 16/03/01

Police force lets officers take DNA from all suspects - 22/03/01

Increase in police still fewer than 1997 figure - 23/03/01 the number of police officers remains 1,621 below the total inherited by Labour when it took office four years ago

Give car back to 'thief', say judges - 23/03/01

Police quit countryside as 25pc of stations go - 26/03/01 more than 600 police stations have closed in the last decade

Cannabis users may be let off with a warning - 28/03/01

Police errors may delay plan for job checks on criminals - 29/03/01

Yardie gun battles spark school guard call - 04/04/01

Police 'should not waste time on driving offences' - 14/04/01

Britain may import anti-Mob laws - 20/04/01

Police fear Asian gangs may set up 'no go' areas - 20/04/01 62% of the 572 racial attacks reported in Oldham last year were committed by Asians on white victims

Two killed in 'Yardie' gang war - 23/04/01

Police recruitment jumps by 77% - 23/04/01 but this recruitment would be more than outstripped by officers leaving the service

Blair declares new war on yobs and vandals - 24/04/01

'No-go' Asians attack veteran - 24/04/01

Yobs face 'payback' plan - 24/04/01 they would have to pick up litter

War veteran in 'racist' attack - 24/04/01 figures show a record number of racist attacks in Oldham - with 60% of victims being white

Blair offers 'bribes' if tearaways go straight - 25/04/01

Councils will not be cleaning up - 25/04/01

Attack prompts race war fears - 25/04/01 most of Oldham's Asians live in streets where the white population has fled

Half of elderly fear attack at night - 25/04/01

'In your face' police tactics put pressure on May Day agitators - 25/04/01

Man who stabbed house raider was 'entirely justified' - 25/04/01

No offence, officer - 25/04/01

Red tape 'forcing police off the beat' - 26/04/01

Fury as Martin farm burglar is consulted over release date - 29/04/01

Police shoot tyres in car chase - 30/04/01 armed yardies

May Day extremists face 'zero tolerance' - 30/04/01

Capital is placed on anarchist security alert - 30/04/01

May Day rubber bullet warning - 30/04/01

May Day 'vandals' warned by Blair - 01/05/01

London braced for the May Day mayhem - 01/05/01

Pregnant driver 'shot by Yardie' - 02/05/01

Pregnant woman shooting: 3 held - 03/05/01

Britain leads the world on risk of being assaulted - 04/05/01 tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime?

Black officer made No4 at Met - 04/05/01

Police ready to move into city schools - 07/05/01

Why have our sons and daughters become muggers and vandals? - 07/05/01

'Robbing's easy - who's going to stop us?' - 07/05/01

'Some people mug because it's the way they survive. Others just enjoy getting a reputation' - 07/05/01

Gone in just seconds in 1999, 57 per cent of vehicle thefts in London were committed by youths aged 17 or under

Catch them young - 07/05/01

Brothers are attacked by Asian gang - 07/05/01

Anarchy in court over fines that go unpaid - 08/05/01

'There's a whole generation of kids being attacked and robbed' - 08/05/01

Are parents to blame for young offenders? Jonathan Myerson - a writer and Labour Party member - believes nothing damages children more than the absence of fathers (yikes! he'll be in trouble won't he?)

Tories plan to lock up 12-year-old offenders - 10/05/01

Inmate who won right for leave stays away - 11/05/01 Luigi Marotta, 56, known as "The Teflon Don" - inmates were aware of Marotta's plans and he had promised to send them pizzas once he was free

Police recruits 'getting worse' - 12/05/01

Police 'powerless to fight crime' - 14/05/01

Straw's tougher sentencing plan - 15/05/01

Police call for return of village bobbies - 15/05/01

We must return officers to villages, says police leader - 15/05/01

Racist incidents are not all black and white - 15/05/01 Last year the number of racist incidents recorded by the police rose 107 per cent to 47,814... A racist incident is now redefined as "any incident which is perceived as racist by the victim or any other person"... No wonder some people believe that the enormous rise in the figures is the result of police recording gone politically correct

Tories hit out over rapes - 15/05/01 around 1,000 crimes had been committed by the 35,000 offenders freed under the early release scheme

'Criminals treated like victims' - police - 15/05/01

Police call for political support - 15/05/01

Bullied veteran hangs in 'shame' - 16/05/01 A Second World War veteran who pointed a toy gun at a gang of teenage bullies after months of torment has been found hanged at home on the day he was to appear in court on imitation firearms charges... Hampshire police have no intention of questioning any gang members, or of pressing charges

Tory broadcast says Labour to blame for rapes - 16/05/01

Police face big pay and pensions shake-up - 16/05/01 The Government is anxious to avoid a damaging backlash from rank-and-file policemen before polling day on June 7

Officers warn of looming crisis on police numbers - 16/05/01 the "last-minute hiring frenzy" being pushed through by the Government was overwhelming the training system, with £18,000-a-year recruits doing clerical work while waiting to get on to training courses

Straw jeered by police conference - 16/05/01 There were roars of laughter when he said that being a police officer was a popular job

Hague 'war' on crime - 16/05/01 he said 35,000 criminals had been let out of jail under the Government's special early release scheme and promised a Tory government would scrap it

Police Federation shakes Straw with the WI treatment - 17/05/01 the most hostile reception experienced by a Home Secretary at the Federation's conference in the last decade

Hague: Labour would release 80,000 criminals - 17/05/01

Widdecombe woos police - 17/05/01 Shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe has won an enthusiastic reception from the Police Federation conference - in marked contrast to the boos received by Labour's Jack Straw on Wednesday... in a swipe at political correctness, which she blamed for damaging officers' morale, she promised "more PCs, less PC" if the Conservatives won the election

Rape 'victims' to face more questioning - 18/05/01

Motoring fines quotas criticised - 19/05/01 compulsory targets will concentrate police resources on minor infringements like seatbelt violations and invalid tax discs

Parties talk tough on crime - 20/05/01

DIY police to fight rural crime - 24/05/01 Conservative-controlled Kent county council is putting in more than £1 million to fund more than 60 additional policemen

Labour targets crime cash - 27/05/01

Labour chases crime barons - 27/05/01

Blunkett to discuss Oldham riots - 13/06/01

Blunkett: 'No no-go areas in Oldham' - 15/06/01

Labour steals Tory idea of police cadets - 17/06/01

Queen's Speech: End to 'double jeopardy' planned - 20/06/01 civil rights activists believe the changes hold worrying implications for essential liberties

Jail inspector accuses Home Office - 20/06/01 his advice could have improved prisons and possibly led to falling crime rates

Blunkett calls for cannabis debate - 08/07/01

Blunkett hints at drug law rethink - 09/07/01

Bradford riot police 'overwhelmed' - 09/07/01

Sion Simon, Labour MP: The 'friends' on the Left are to blame for Bradford - 09/07/01 yesterday's Observer conceals the sinister truth: "Two people were stabbed and 80 police officers injured after a protest march against the National Front turned violent." Not by the National Front, but against it

Muslim parents and mosques are to blame, says Hindu leader - 09/07/01

Blunkett gives the police three months - 13/07/01 to agree to sweeping reforms or have them imposed by legislation

Bobbies who risk being on target and off the beat - 13/07/01

Gun crimes soaring despite ban brought in following Dunblane - 15/07/01 handguns were used in 3,685 offences last year compared with 2,648 in 1997, an increase of 40%

Blunkett to make CID look like extra police - 15/07/01

Violence still on rise, admits Home Office - 15/07/01

Police 'to get tranquilliser guns' - 15/07/01

Chiefs warn Blunkett of prisons crisis - 17/07/01 Twenty of the 137 prisons in England and Wales are at least 20 per cent overcrowded

Violent crime on the rise - 19/07/01

Graffiti tactics in the Met's war against black gunmen - 10/08/01

Surveillance stymied by European privacy law - 12/08/01 cameras which have kept crime rate down in Totnes will have to go because of 38 pages of gobbledygook, badly written and contrary to any concept of common sense

Gun killings double as police claim progress - 17/08/01

Crime histories to go public (Scotland) - 29/08/01

Police blitz leads to 342 arrests in a week - 29/08/01

Staffs Police force questions all offenders in area - 29/08/01

30,000 paid Specials to be recruited - 04/09/01

Trust a special - 04/09/01

Police chiefs face reform power struggle - 04/09/01

Juries are 'too large for correct verdicts' - 04/09/01

Prison for smacking a toddler - 07/09/01

One in two shopkeepers has been a victim of violent crime - 07/09/01

Omar Bakri Muhammad, a judge in Britain's Islamic Sharia Court: "I understand the attack on the Pentagon. It is part of the US war machine which killed so many people in Iraq." - 13/09/01 Unbelievably there are moves in Britain to encourage Islamics to become judges. What kind of treatment can we expect from them?

Euan Blair mugged at midnight in London - 03/10/01 by eight to 10 black youths. A spokesman tried to play down its severity by claiming that "it was the sort of thing that one would not normally report"

Youth gangs plague area where Euan was mugged - 04/10/01

Blunkett backs down on scrapping police oath of allegiance - 05/10/01

Arrests of crime bosses rise - 05/10/01

A knife in the heart for trial by jury - 09/10/01

Judge sets first tariff for murder - 09/10/01 Scotland

Jail building plan will end overcrowding says minister - 10/10/01

Shotgun farmer's life sentence reduced - 30/10/01

'Ninety-nine per cent would have done the same' - 30/10/01

Intensive therapy 'cannot cut violence' - 10/11/01

Black mugger shoots girl, 19, for her mobile - 03/01/02

Police fear crime explosion as school-age muggers graduate to guns - 03/01/02 In London, 16 of the 30 murders between April and November fell into the "black on black" category

Tories highlight crime 'conveyor belt' - 08/01/02

Civilian police to go on the beat within months - 26/01/02

Rich pay £1,000 a year for private police - 03/02/02

The streets where peace and safety come at a price - 03/02/01

Why we're left to the phone-muggers' mercy - 03/02/02

Metropolitan Police hits back at Blunkett's 'simplistic' crime ultimatum - 17/02/02

Police retirement age will rise to 65 to boost numbers - 17/02/02

Most people want smacking law - 17/02/02

Lawrence widow attacks Labour over rising crime - 17/02/02 crime has risen relentlessly since Labour came to power in 1997

Inner city crime rates 'unacceptable' - 17/02/02

Jail clear-out thwarted by tagging doubts - 18/02/02

Blunkett's double defeat on police and asylum - 23/02/02

Gun crime trebles as weapons and drugs flood British cities - 24/02/02

Mass resignation threat by police over reforms deal - 25/02/02

Police square up to Home Secretary - 26/02/02

Tories fight threat to police independence - 28/02/02 Blunkett wants to dictate how chief constables should run their forces

Blunkett is laying the ground to make Britain a police state - 28/02/02

Black editor backs stop and search - 04/03/02

Guilty go free, warns top policeman - 06/03/02 British courts fuel increasing numbers of robberies, rapes and violent attacks by shielding criminals, according to London's police chief

Boris's bike stolen - 07/03/02

Lawyers hit back at police chief - 07/03/02

Outspoken Voice against violence - 08/03/02 The editor of Britain's main black paper explains why he risked the wrath of readers by attacking gun crime

Top lawyer warns of 'police state' - 08/03/02

Blunkett heaps more red tape on police - 09/03/02

Rising knife crime deals a further blow to Blunkett - 10/03/02

Blunkett may soften Police Bill to avoid defeat in the Lords - 11/03/02

Stop and search powers stepped up - 11/03/02

Blunkett accused of PR stunt by crime-hit residents - 12/03/02

PC gives case against Blunkett reforms - 13/03/02

'Bobby lobby' puts the arm on Blunkett reform plan - 14/03/02 up to 10,000 police officers converged on Westminster yesterday to highlight their opposition to Government plans to change the service

Revealed: crime spree of the tagged offenders - 17/03/02 Prisoners freed early under the Government's tagging scheme have committed more than 1,400 new crimes, including rapes and kidnappings

Ten men freed to kill and rape - 17/03/02

Act more like NYPD, Met told - 17/03/02

Blitz on crime 'to reclaim streets' - 17/03/02

BBC Breakfast with Frost: David Blunkett - 17/03/02

Street crime crackdown is ordered by Blunkett - 18/03/02 Street crime is spiralling out of control, David Blunkett has admitted

No 10 'summits' usually mean doing nothing - 18/03/02

Police should emulate US tactics, says Letwin - 20/03/02

Blunkett unveils plan to ease jail crowding - 21/03/02

NYPD shows the way - 21/03/02

Paper chase keeps officers off the beat - 21/03/02

Armed police demoralised by drawn-out shooting inquiries - 23/03/02

Blunkett's 'pointless' summits on crime attacked - 25/03/02

Town to ban teenagers from streets at night - 25/03/02

Shopkeepers protest as 'Terror Triplets' go free - 27/03/02

Youth offended 96 times - 27/03/02

Detectives to wear their own uniform - 08/04/02

Rape complainants 'failed' by justice system - 08/04/02

Rape justice 'failing victims' - 08/04/02

Blunkett 'will not solve crime with initiatives' - 11/04/02

Crime targets 'hampering' police - 11/04/02

Ten areas of high crime to have fast-track courts - 12/04/02

Illegal migrants forcing police to ignore rail crime - 12/04/02

Public confidence in police 'falling' on street crime - 12/04/02

It's official: Hackney is more dangerous than Soweto - 14/04/02

Police get powers to warn parents of unruly children - 14/04/02

Child criminals are targeted - 17/04/02 Home Secretary David Blunkett wants tougher measures to deal with child criminals as young as 10 even though he has yet to implement powers he already has

Bosses are told, give jobs to criminals - 24/04/02 Business leaders who want something done about the billions of pounds a year they lose through crime were told by David Blunkett yesterday to give jobs to ex-offenders!

Blair sets street crime deadline - 24/04/02

Blair pledge to curb muggings in months - 25/04/02

Tories dismiss Blair's crime pledge - 25/04/02 the prime minister was willing to take the credit for a change in technology

Downing St backtracks over Blair crime pledge - 26/04/02

If Blair wants to beat street crime, we need beat bobbies - 26/04/02

Give us back our streets - 26/04/02

Blair repeats pledge over muggings - 28/04/02

Blair: parents of tearaways should lose child benefit - 28/04/02

Row over threat to tearaways' benefits - 28/04/02

Police to patrol our toughest schools - 30/04/02

Sack me if you must, but stop this charade of youth justice - 30/04/02

What happened to all the other bright ideas? - 30/04/02 no sooner does one youth justice initiative die than two take its place

Blair is defiant on truancy 'gimmick' - 30/04/02 but Downing Street officials admitted that they did not have answers to detailed questions about how the scheme would work

You read it here first: fining parents is a good idea - 02/05/02 Boris Johnson

Blunkett told not to abuse powers over police chiefs - 07/05/02

Boost for 'civilian police' plan - 07/05/02

Blunkett misses Police Bill debate - 08/05/02

One boy crime wave alarms Blunkett - 08/05/02

New jail ships as Blunkett runs out of cells - 09/05/02

Anger may spill at police conference - 13/05/02 New Labour: the boys in blue are sick of you

Police pension crisis looms - 14/05/02

Police reject easing drug laws - 14/05/02

Tony Blair talks to Newsnight - Part 1 - 14/05/02 Paxman: "Can we talk a little bit about crime, do you recognise these words: Friday night is made impossible for people, old people afraid to live in their own home, never mind out in the streets, young people often intimidated by other young people. These things are wholly unacceptable. That was you speaking in 1993. Which part of that description isn't even more true now?"

Blunkett faces police critics - 15/05/02 tough criticism from officers who say morale has hit new lows

Jonathan Miller 'in despair' at gangs of feral children - 16/05/02 and he's a liberal

Reclaim the streets - 16/05/02 If London wants to emulate the New York story, it must start by employing more policemen

Blair's crime crackdown won't work says law chief - 17/05/02

Burglaries up as police focus on street crime - 20/05/02

The overlap between schools and crime - 24/05/02

Police tackle muggings but street crimes still rise - 26/05/02

Head's widow asked to apologise to killer - 27/05/02

Truants say jailing mother worked - 27/05/02

'Prison taught me a valuable lesson' - 28/05/02

Probation officer asked Lawrence widow to say sorry to 'upset' killer - 28/05/02 the actions of the probation officer were "entirely inappropriate" and senior members of the service have apologised to Mrs Lawrence over the incident

Tagged offenders on early release - 28/05/02

Blunkett vows 'life will mean life' - 28/05/02

Leave killers to Parliament - 30/05/02 Blunkett to resist the decision by the European Court of Human Rights that the Home Secretary should lose the power to decide how long murderers spend in jail

Blunkett's blunder confuses the issue - 30/05/02 The Strasbourg judges' ruling on whole life tariffs provoked an ill-considered response from the Home Secretary

Met goes abroad to find black officers - 04/06/02

Met to recruit police from abroad - 04/06/02

Police defend station closures - 10/06/02

'Private firms could get police role' - 10/06/02

Eleven crimes reported every minute, say police - 14/06/02

Ministers to back antisocial tenants Bill - 15/06/02

Crime shows biggest rise for a decade - 16/06/02

Crime rise driven by burglary and mugging - 16/06/02

Criminals face 1 in 16 chance of conviction - 16/06/02 the police, prosecutors and courts are failing to act together

Crime rate set to rise - 16/06/02

Blunkett admits crime increase - 17/06/02

New breed of corrupt police ruin crime fight - 17/06/02

Judge backs man who killed knife intruder - 18/06/02

Blaming the lawyers will not end the crisis in our criminal justice system - 18/06/02

Lower sentences for guilty pleas will head law reforms - 18/06/02

Blair to signal courts shake-up - 18/06/02

Blair vows to 'rebalance' justice towards victim - 19/06/02 The 800-year-old double jeopardy rule, which prevents people being tried if they have already been acquitted of the same offence, will be abolished

Letwin seeks to end cycle of crime - 19/06/02 System for dealing with young criminals is a hopeless failure

Young arsonists destroy £1m estate - 19/06/02

Murderer freed by Euro court - 19/06/02

Underground car park attack made me want to flee London - 19/06/02 My 12-year-old son hasn't been mugged yet, but most of his friends have

Outrage over murderer's freedom - 20/06/02

Antiquated sex crime laws to be overhauled - 20/06/02

DNA 'to identify police suspects by surname' - 21/06/02

Cabbages make prisoners go straight - 25/06/02

Dangerous patients face being locked up - 26/06/02 Hundreds of potentially dangerous psychopaths could be detained indefinitely, even if they have committed no crime

Tough new mental health laws proposed - 26/06/02

Crime-fighter is abused by thugs - 27/06/02 A boy of 12 has been targeted by thugs within days of being praised by the Home Secretary for helping to fight crime

City arrests soar with high-tech spy cameras - 28/06/02

CCTV does cut crime, says minister - 28/06/02

Digital CCTV scheme switches on - 28/06/02

CCTV 'fails to reduce crime' - 28/06/02

CCTV: Does it work? - 28/06/02

Blunkett is trying to bring in a police state by the back door - 04/07/02

Private prisons refused insurance - 05/07/02

Video ID parades to cut police costs - 06/07/02

True crime figures set to reveal 40% increase - 07/07/02

Leave killers' sentences to the judges, Blunkett told - 09/07/02

Blunkett yields on police reform - 10/07/02

Juvenile crime fight 'hindered by Woolf' - 10/07/02

Police 'refused aid' to shotgun farmer - 10/07/02

Cannabis row as drugs adviser quits - 10/07/02

Farmer who shot intruder walks free - 12/07/02

Ministers in row over crime rise figures - 12/07/02

Blunkett's criminal record - 12/07/02

Crime rate "stable" - despite 7% rise - 12/07/02

Authority calls for plastic bullets - 12/07/02

Street robberies soar by 28% - 12/07/02

Pledge to tackle soaring street crime - 12/07/02

Doctors trained for NHS 'war-zone' - 12/07/02 doctors working in inner city casualty departments are being trained in battlefield medicine to help them treat the increasing number of patients with knife and gunshot wounds

Criminal statistics - 14/07/02

Police to lose charges option - 15/07/02

Lord Woolf reduces jail terms for juvenile killers - 15/07/02

Computer hitch delays crime record check for firms - 15/07/02

Funds for street crime - 16/07/02

Tories accuse Blunkett of U-turn on police reform - 17/07/02

Public school life in en-suite jails - 17/07/02

Double jeopardy rule to be scrapped - 17/07/02

Sweeping justice reforms unveiled - 17/07/02

A place for the victims - 17/07/02

Analysis: Criminal justice reform - 17/07/02

Head to head: Legal shake-up - 17/07/02

Police drop their 'softly softly' line on cannabis - 26/07/02

Home Office 'drops' targets - 01/08/02 The Home Office has been accused of abandoning targets intended to show how well it was performing on crime, asylum and drug abuse

Police test on-the-spot fines for street louts - 13/08/02 though there is little evidence of their use on the streets

Burglar takes his victim to court - 17/08/02

Death penalty call renewed - 20/08/02

Widdecombe urges debate on restoring death penalty - 21/08/02

Police 'failing to tackle street crime' - 31/08/02

Man "guilty" of burglar manslaughter - 10/09/02

Revealed: the police figures that show crime soaring out of control - 29/09/02 Tony Blair told MPs in April that street crime would be "brought under control" by September

Brown 'on course to miss half Government targets' - 27/11/02 for example a Home Office target to cut robberies, which are actually up 44pc in the major cities

Police attack rule sparing burglars from jail - 21/12/02

Homicides fall to 580 in 2002 - 02/01/03 in New York City alone

Guns and drugs - 03/01/03 Gun crime rose by 40% in the 3 years after handguns were banned. But in the USA the state with the lowest gun crime rate is Vermont, which has the most relaxed gun laws

Irvine backs burglary guidelines - 06/01/03 that keep most first-time non-violent burglars out of jail

Gun law shake-up unveiled - 06/01/03

Why burglaries should set off Whitehall alarms - 09/01/03

'Mixed messages' on burglary? - 09/01/03

Burglary victims speak out - 09/01/03

Labour losing crime initiative - 09/01/03

Gun crime soars by 35% - 09/01/03

Gun crime claims 30 victims every day - 10/01/03 Crimes involving firearms increased by 35% last year... Gun crime has more than doubled since Labour came to power in 1997

Sex attacks, burglaries and car thefts all rise - 10/01/03

Guns amnesty agreed at summit - 10/01/03

Public has zero tolerance of Blair on crime - 11/01/03 voters are unhappy with the Government's record after more than five years in office

Blair fails to convince public that he is tough on crime - 11/01/03

Don't bother about burglary, police told - 12/01/03 Police have been ordered not to bother investigating crimes such as burglary, vandalism and assaults unless evidence pointing to the culprits is easily available

Lord Woolf's own street hit by crimewave - 12/01/03 Neighbours of the Lord Chief Justice - "the burglar's friend" - are so concerned that they are lobbying the council to install CCTV along the street

These gun policies are only replicas, but lethal - 12/01/03

Duncan Smith targets Blair record - 13/01/03 accusing him of being responsible for failing the nation on crime, health and education

Burglars given green light, warn Tories - 13/01/03

Why Britain needs more guns - 14/01/03 American bumper sticker: "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." That is what is happening in Britain

Asylum and crime targets missed - 14/02/03

Clinic examines 'crime diet' link - 23/02/03

UK rules out death penalty extradition - 05/04/03

Police defend gun amnesty 'success' - 30/04/03 More than 20,000 old or unused weapons were handed in but hardly any from inner cities

Police 'opposed to carrying guns' - 12/05/03 Handgun crimes have doubled since Dunblane

Ex-officer criticises slow police response - 24/05/03

Foreign police plan attacked - 06/06/03

Burgled pensioners 'die early' - 25/06/03

Blunkett admits crime figures 'disgrace' - 04/07/03

Violence edges up as crime drops - 17/07/03

Rural residents face £20m bill for street 'wardens' - 03/08/03 The Government has decided to axe funding for the Street Warden initiative, which was launched nationally in 2001 by Tony Blair as a way of reducing vandalism and petty crime

Tories call for US-style police control - 09/09/03

Blunkett vows to curb gun crime - 02/10/03

Sheriffs idea in Tory police plans - 07/10/03

Hanging call overshadows Letwin - 07/10/03

Gun crime 'still rising' - 16/10/03

Britain 'is crime capital of western world' - 29/10/03

Tories' Davis backs death penalty - 15/11/03

Shadow home secretary: Bring back death penalty - 16/11/03 In two-thirds of crimes reported to the police, officers tell the victims that there is little or nothing that can be done

Criminal neglect - 16/11/03 many people seem to take it for granted that, should they be a victim of crime, the police will not bother to investigate it properly

Criminal justice 'fails victims' - 03/12/03

BBC listeners want right to kill burglars - 02/01/04 Radio 4 poll blows up in BBC's face

Tory Sir Teddy Taylor assaulted - 16/01/04

Police ban on marriage questions - for fear of hurting gays - 19/01/04

Schools 'key' to preventing crime - 21/01/04

More motorists are sent to prison than burglars - 22/01/04 something we used to say sarcastically!

Violent crime up by 14% - 22/01/04

Rise in violent crime figures - 22/01/04

Tories would reverse cannabis reform - 22/01/04

£10 fine for taking off tag 'scandalous' - 28/01/04

Victory for allotment vigilante - 30/01/04 An actor who made a citizen's arrest armed with a pitchfork has accused the police of persecution

Criminals' threats undermining courts - 02/02/04

Growing scale of jury nobbling - 02/02/04

New helmet makes police a 'laughing stock' - 22/03/04

Violent crime figures rise by 11% - 29/04/04

Gun crime: Has anything changed? - 29/04/04

'Tony Martin law' is blocked - 30/04/04

Blair urges new era in crime fight - 19/07/04

Police station closures attacked - 09/08/04

US expert warns UK over gun crime - 12/10/04

Loss of funds 'could cut police' - 20/10/04

Murder laws set to be reviewed - 27/10/04

Vetting body 'will cost £395m' - 28/10/04

New 'yob' targets to be unveiled - 28/10/04

Police chief: my speed obsession - 03/11/04

Crime fighting goes back to the 50s - 09/11/04

Chief backs right to defend home - 04/12/04

Tories back burglar defence bill - 05/12/04

Tougher intruder laws ruled out - 12/01/05

We show that the fight-back figures are wrong - 16/01/05 Labour caught lying about the number of householders prosecuted for defending their homes against intruders

'Violent crime increases by 6%' - 25/01/05

25% of youths are revealed to be criminals - 26/01/05

'Labour has failed to stop Yardies' - 26/01/05

Burglar defence guidelines issued - 01/02/05

MPs support Tory MP's reasonable force bill - 04/02/05

Lift phone tap ban in terror trials, says new Met chief - 05/02/05

'Politicised police race training runs risk of backlash from white officers' - 09/03/05

Burglars drive man to suicide - 10/03/05

Paperwork is a front-line duty for police - 10/03/05 The detection rate has fallen from 29% in 1998 to 23%

Police 'solving too few crimes' - 10/03/05

Drugs failure overshadows Blair's crime manifesto - 11/03/05

Police force's murder 'struggle' - 13/03/05

Prisons 'bursting at the seams' - 13/03/05

Paperwork 'slowing crime fight' - 20/03/05 30% of officers' time is spent on bureaucracy

MPs criticise Government response to drink crime - 05/04/05

Mother's anger as gun youth goes free - 06/04/05

I saw boy shot and waited while police decided if it was safe, says minister - 08/04/05

Best practice for police is worst for crime's victims - 08/04/05

Force cuts back on 'burden' of burglary statements - 08/04/05

Police given points for catching motorists - 13/04/05

Dubious points of law - 13/04/05 The points system not only trivialises crime but it also misrepresents what the policeman's job is meant to be about

Violent crimes 'are on the rise' - 21/04/05

Majority believes that Blair has failed over crime - 24/04/05 Most voters believe that Tony Blair has broken the promise for which he was best known before he took office - to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"

Jail population hits record high - 29/04/05

Courting injustice - 12/05/05

Offender uniform plans dismissed - 15/05/05

Feral youths on 'rampage of fear' - 17/05/05

Targets 'push bobbies off beat' - 18/05/05

Visitor rise at 'hoodie' ban mall - 19/05/05

Man killed by boy on ASBO - 03/06/05

Chief constable hit by Taser gun - 05/07/05

Offenders escape community service - 17/07/05 they are routinely turned away and credited with two hours

Off the rails - 20/07/05 British Transport Police recorded 65,051 offences on the railway last year, including a 25% increase in violent crimes, public order offences and criminal damage

Violent offences top million mark - 21/07/05

New drink laws 'lead to violence' - 10/08/05

Early jail releases 'considered' - 13/10/05

Row over empty former prison ship - 15/10/05

Violent crime shows 6% increase - 20/10/05

New bid for tougher intruder law - 28/10/05

Clarke says law on tackling burglars should not change - 20/11/05 he forgot to mention that before the election

No 10 rejects death penalty call - 21/11/05

Most forces 'against merger plan' - 23/12/05

Killer release plan 'a disgrace' - 07/01/06

Tories propose police 'shake-up' - 16/01/06

Dutch open 'Big Brother' jail - 19/01/06

Violent crime and robbery on rise - 26/01/06

A family under siege - 10/02/06

Confusion and chaos: just another week in the magistrates' courts - 26/02/06 magistrates, who deal with most legal cases, are paralysed by delays and inefficiency

U.K. government loans laptops to prisoners - 08/03/06

Mary Ann's killers were on probation - 21/03/06

Pc delays football for yobs... to deal with their crimes - 22/03/06

Prisons face 'overcrowded summer' - 02/04/06

'My father deserved to be hanged by Pierrepoint' - 09/04/06

Police 'too busy' to watch CCTV film of burglaries - 09/04/06

Fury as 40 rapists a year get cautions - 11/04/06

Police merger plan draws protest - 12/04/06

1,000 Foreign criminals escape removal - 25/04/06

Problem of dealing with foreign criminals - 25/04/06

Clarke under intense pressure - 25/04/06

Clarke insists 'I will not quit' - 25/04/06

In quotes: Clarke and deportation - 26/04/06

Whitehall apology on deportation - 26/04/06

Foreign prisoners: The numbers - 26/04/06

How the deportation story emerged - 26/04/06

Foreign prisoner numbers mounting - 27/04/06

No computer 'trace' of offenders - 28/04/06

Five foreign prisoners reoffended - 28/04/06

What Mr Clarke did not tell us: he has allowed 2,500 foreign criminals to stay here - 30/04/06

Victim's mother enters Clarke row - 01/05/06 she said her son's killer, a Jamaican drug dealer, should have been deported because he had served time in prison, and called on Home Secretary Charles Clarke to resign

Beshenivsky suspect not deported - 02/05/06

Blair clashes over free prisoners - 03/05/06

Terror suspect was not deported - 04/05/06

Clarke is fired in Cabinet purge - 05/05/06

Deportation case figures worsen - 08/05/06

Young offenders 'being ignored' - 08/05/06

Reid attacks 'unfit' Home Office - 23/05/06

Reid admits giving wrong figures - 24/05/06

Police computer system is delayed by three years and will cost double the estimate - 25/05/06

Red-faced Reid admits to new Home Office error - 25/05/06 John Reid, the new Home Secretary, admitted that a foreign murderer he told MPs was in jail had actually been released on bail

More foreign offenders 'released' - 26/05/06

Convictions too few - Goldsmith - 28/05/06

How Britain made its executioners - 01/06/06

Release of 53 lifers under fire - 13/06/06

Therapy 'no cure for sex abusers' - 29/06/06

Only four of 23 lifers recaptured - 05/07/06

Two men caught stealing caravan are let off - 08/08/06

Inmates receive benefit millions - 18/08/06

Life in Britain 'declining' - 04/09/06

Abortive police mergers cost £1m - 04/09/06

Criticism over released offenders - 07/09/06

Mother fined for swearing at gang of trouble-makers - 10/09/06 "I had called police and spoken to our beat officer about six times. Not once had they been round to see me."

Foreign criminal unit disbanded - 24/09/06

Tough on Crime? The yobs have finally won:

Banned: Police ordered to stop calling young tearaways 'yobs' - 01/10/06

Tagged offenders went on to kill - 12/10/06

Minister's stats don't add up - 15/10/06

'Millions wasted' on court cases - 18/10/06

'Supervised' criminals continue crime wave - 21/10/06

Number of prolific offenders more than twice Blair estimate - 30/10/06

Fury over killer freed to wipe out family - 02/11/06

Killer's psychiatric care panned - 16/11/06

Crime statistics 'need overhaul' - 17/11/06

More criminals avoiding jail as cautions rise - 24/11/06 cautious on crime - cautious on the causes of crime!

Muggers commit crimes 'for kicks' - 29/11/06

More people in UK prisons than ever before - 30/11/06

Sharia law is spreading as authority wanes - 30/11/06

Lesser murder charge planned in law reform - 30/11/06 great news for murderers!

Immaturity to be defence for young killers - 30/11/06

Police paperwork costs hit �625m - 02/12/06

Home Office missing crime target - 08/12/06

Labour's greatest skill is passing the buck - 09/12/06 New Labour says there is so much crime because too many of us have so much worth stealing: never mind that the Government has fed criminality by encouraging single-parent families, failing to enforce the drugs laws, and letting off offenders

Illegal immigrants win compensation over 'unlawful detention' - 14/12/06

Prisoners could vote under ECHR proposals - 15/12/06 good news for Labour

Murder suspect fled under Muslim veil - 20/12/06

Veil escape 'exposes chaos in border controls' - 21/12/06 the man wanted for the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky left the country disguised as a veiled Muslim woman

Killers had long criminal records - 21/12/06

Law and order spending fails to reduce crime - 27/12/06

Prison absconder numbers unknown - 06/01/07

No record kept of criminals convicted abroad - 10/01/07

280 serious criminals still not on database - 10/01/07

Muggers 'attack 120 pupils a day' - 11/01/07

Convicted rapist left free to strike schoolgirl - 13/01/07

Crimes 'may still be going unrecorded' - 13/01/07

Police cut frontline officers in cash crisis - 14/01/07

Welcome to the hunt for forgotten offenders - 14/01/07

EU criminals 'can't be checked' - 15/01/07

Resignation adds to Reid pressure - 26/01/07 "We're standing on the brink of a prisons crisis"

Home Office in travel ban blunder - 27/01/07

Judges lead revolt as crime policy falls apart - 27/01/07

For your sake and ours, Mr Blair � call it a day - 27/01/07 On taking office, Labour discontinued Michael Howard's prison building policy and, in consequence, now finds itself damned by the procrastination of its early years

Crisis exposes Blair's law and order flaws - 27/01/07 The Prime Minisiter now stands accused of being neither tough on crime nor on its causes

And another one bites the dust - 27/01/07 Any idiot could have worked out, years ago, that Blair's policies were (a) leading to an explosion of criminality and (b) would require more prisons to be built to protect the public. But Labour is in denial about the society it has created, and about its capacity to deal with it

£100 charge for car theft victims - 31/01/07

Labour 'had chance to build enough jail places' - 04/02/07

Britain tops European crime league - 06/02/07 It is the most burgled country in Europe, has the highest level of assaults and above average rates of car theft, robbery and pickpocketing

What have the past 10 years of Blair been for? - 21/02/07 the Government is determined to use the police as an instrument of social engineering rather than as a weapon to fight crime

Crime record backlog 'a failure' - 02/03/07

Just one in 58 police is patrolling the streets - 17/03/07

Only one in 40 officers free to answer calls - 30/03/07

Inside America's toughest jail (Brit paper says Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ideas would be great for U.K.) - 28/04/07

Hospitals treat 13 knifings a day - 18/05/07

Reid faces control order pressure - 24/05/07

Britain 'to drop EU veto over law and order' - 05/06/07

Jail inmates 'to be freed early' - 19/06/07

Crime 'stable' but robbery rises - 19/07/07

'Unsuitable' inmates released - 21/07/07

Analysis: UK gun crime figures - 23/08/07

Police 'bogged down by red tape' - 12/09/07