Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has abandoned plans to make the police more directly accountable to their local communities. It is questionable whether the Government was ever really serious about this measure. Ministers proposed to make the members of the police authority that oversees each of the 42 constabularies in England and Wales directly elected. At present about half are indirect...

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says a police survey in England and Wales is to be scrapped to free up time.

Jacqui Smith is “stepping back” from the idea of directly elected police officials. Her reasoning is priceless: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she would “step back” from the move aimed at making police in England and Wales more accountable to local communities. She told The Guardian she feared the police would become politicised. As our Athenian friend

Hat tip to the irrepressible Mr Fawkes for this link but the Carry On-esque comments by Playboy TV on the Jacqui Smith expenses scandal is a classic piece of shameless opportunism...and great marketing. According to the channel, "Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s future seems to be in doubt after she tried to claim the cost of two adult films her husband watched on expenses. Why should the taxpa...

Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, today congratulated Essex police on being the first force to fully implement the government's new "policing pledge". Signed by every force in England and Wales, it includes a police commitment to setting priorities with local communities and updating them on progress at least once a month. Officers are required to respond to calls concerning agreed priorities...

The right of MPs to police their own expenses was called into question after Jacqui Smith the former home secretary was told she need not repay any of the £100000 she claimed incorrectly.

As an April Fool, I wrote a post entitled “EXCLUSIVE: Jacqui Smith resigns as Home Secretary“, saying: Jacqui Smith has resigned as Home Secretary, after admitting that she couldn’t she “just couldn’t hack it” after being caught fiddling the Parliamentary expenses system… She has also announced that she will be standing down as MP for Redditch at

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith joined MPs engulfed by the expenses scandal today as it was confirmed that it has forced her out of the Cabinet.

Home secretary tells police conference badges must be visible and complaints properly investigated The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, today criticised the "current vogue for police bashing'' in the wake of the G20 protests in London and said she hoped it would not dent police recruitment. Addressing the Police Federation conference in Bournemouth, Smith stressed that the video and televis...

JACQUI Smith is to resign as Home Secretary following revelations about her expenses claims, according to reports from Westminster.