2+ hour, 23+ min ago  (656+ words) A new report has revealed Police Scotland is failing to take the fingerprints of thousands of people it arrests each year. The Scottish biometrics commissioner has today published the findings of a joint review carried out to provide assurance that…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (502+ words) Pictured: The UK's home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, visiting Denmark last week. (Credit: Niklas Hallen - Home Office / Flickr, CC BY 4.0) The UK will no longer grant refugee status on a permanent basis, instead reviewing cases every 30 months to identify refugees who…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (156+ words) The Scottish government "must reverse" worrying trends in key categories of crime including sexual crimes, indecent images of children and shoplifting, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. Figures from Police Scotland show that in the year ending December 2025: Justice spokesperson…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (391+ words) Amnesty International has warned that proposals to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, expand mass deportations and weaken legal safeguards risk undermining democratic accountability and fuelling division, following a speech by Reform UK's home affairs spokesperson outlining plans to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (378+ words) Report: How Brexit has shaped UK immigration policy'scottishlegal.com Report: How Brexit has shaped UK immigration policy A new report from The Constitution Society and the Federal Trust tackles the role immigration policy played in causing Brexit, and that Brexit…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (261+ words) West Midland Police Officers at Orgreave. Credit: West Midlands Police, CC BY-SA 2.0 A police force has acknowledged that it destroyed documents relating to the Battle of Orgreave just weeks before the general election that returned Labour to power on a…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (331+ words) The UK government has confirmed plans to hold a statutory public inquiry into the so-called "Battle of Orgreave" during the miners" strike. For more than four decades, miners and their families have campaigned for an investigation into policing on what…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (248+ words) A police operation to track down members of grooming gangs has been announced by the Home Office. The National Crime Agency (NCA) will target those who have sexually exploited children as part of a grooming gang, and will look at…...