Home Office Reforms

BBC NEWS | Politics | Home Office split ‘within months’

The news that after the unforgivable screw-ups of the home office and its failure to record offences of Britons overseas on the police database, they’re now talking about splitting the largest civil service department into two parts. One to deal with justice and one for public protection.

I’d like to make a few predictions:

1. This will have no effect on efficiency. In fact it will probably make it worse, because there will be an increased amount of communication between departments.
2. The increased communication will probably require a new office to co-ordinate between the two departments.
3. Someone will accuse us of copying the Americans, since the two departments will have similar mandates of the US Department of Justice and US Department of Homeland Security.
4. It will only be a matter of time before some criminal uses it to his/her advantage by claiming that his/her human rights were violated when information is passed between the two departments.