Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Crime and Policing)

Organisations: Ministry of Justice and Home Office

Responsibilities

For the Home Office:

  • policing
  • crime
  • county lines
  • criminal justice system
  • acquisitive crime
  • public protection and protests
  • undercover policing
  • Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS)
  • police technology
  • police powers
  • facial recognition
  • major events
  • football policing
  • flooding, hurricane and natural disaster relief
  • reoffending
  • unauthorised encampments
  • firearms
  • serious violence
  • drugs and alcohol
  • police powers to enforce lockdown and social distancing measures

For the Ministry of Justice:

  • Electronic monitoring
  • Probation policy and operations
  • Reducing reoffending
  • Public protection
  • Drugs
  • Cross cutting Criminal Justice System issues

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP

    2020 to 2022