Alan Johnson was at the centre of a row about police funding after appearing to suggest that the Home Office would cut back on police body armour to save money.

The special Home Office grant of £275,000 to Lincolnshire Police to buy 300 Taser stun guns is great news for the county. As a member of the local Police Authority, I gave evidence to the Home Office when Lincolnshire Police was one of five police forces to pilot Tasers five years ago. I'm a big supporter of Tasers, despite the controvery that surrounds them. Our police officers put the...

Tens of thousands fewer criminals will go to prison over the next four years in a bid to save money, the Ministry of Justice disclosed yesterday.

Officers should patrol alone to help save more than £500 million a year from police budgets, Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, said.

Streets across Britain are being left in darkness as town halls cut back on lighting to save money.

Police are being ordered to make fewer arrests, handle more crime on the phone and not attend as many incidents in an effort to save money.

Former PM and junior members of the Royal family face having police protection cut back to save money.

Streets across Britain are being left in darkness as town halls cut back on lighting to save money.

SCOTLAND'S police forces are split over whether to merge to save money in the face of forthcoming budget cuts.

The government takes too much of our money. It spends it incompetently. And it spends it on the wrong things. Sky has returned £400,000 which the Home Office provided towards the cost of a television programme about the UK Border Force. The Home Office protest that they "never had any editorial input or control over the series". Why, then, would they have shelled out this money? They wouldn&...