Theresa May has been blamed by chief constables for botched police reforms that led to tens of thousands of alerts on foreign criminals being kept from their home countries. Weekly meetings of programme directors were set up and a “series of recommendations to address affordability and deliverability challenges” were agreed. And minutes of a board meeting by the international criminal records office show that the backlog of missed notifications may never be passed on to EU countries – because the Home Office fears the “reputational impact”. “Given the complexity, it will now be delivered through a phased approach starting this year and is on track for completion in 2023. We will continue to monitor progress to ensure the successful delivery of this programme.”

Source: The Guardian January 15, 2020 20:18 UTC