Foreign offences cover-up
Posted on Thursday, March 1st, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: Crime, Departmental Administration
The Home Office has been sitting on its internal report into the backlog of offences committed by British citizens abroad for over a week, the Lib Dem Home Affairs team has discovered today.
A letter from Jack Straw to Nick Clegg confirms the report was submitted to permanent secretary David Normington on Wednesday 21st February - surely the Home Office isn’t waiting for a busy news day to release it?
You’ll remember that 27,500 case files were submitted to the Home Office by foreign governments and then studiously ignored for as many as eight years - and the whole affair only came to light when the files were sent over to the Association of Chief Police Officers to process.
ACPO sent a series of letters to the Home Office about this - and it is alleged asked for more money. We submitted a Freedom of Information request for these letters, dealt with by Tony McNulty and Joan Ryan, which the Home Office has ignored for 34 working days, despite a legal obligation to respond within 20.
Nothing like casual disregard for the law from the ministry responsible for making it…
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