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More than 200 top officials at the Home Office were this week given the first glimpse of John Reid’s plans for the embattled department. Flanked by Sir David Normington, the permanent secretary, Reid outlined an ‘improvement to transformation’ strategy aimed at rebalancing the criminal justice system in favour of the victim and improving performance across the board.
But the home secretary told his staff that he was ‘under no illusions about the size of the task that faces us’ and warned that ‘the public has a right to more protection, more information, better delivery and more control of their public services’.
