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Innocents branded as criminals by Home Office
BillieTheBot
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In recent weeks, we have been reminded of why the Home Office is the worst run department in the government. Firstly, we discover over a thousand murderers, rapists and paedophiles weren't deported back to their home countries. Next, Charlie Clarke was sacked in a desperate move by a Prime Minister keen to hide the damage he was doing. On Thursday, we discovered the Home Office department in charge of illegal immigration (a department that never does any work, it seems) had FIVE cleaners on its payroll who were themselves, illegal immigrants. And now, just when you think it couldn't get worse, we get this.
The Mail on Sunday reported this morning: "Nearly 1,500 innocent people have been wrongly branded as criminals by the Home Office, leading to them losing jobs or being barred from taking up courses, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In an extraordinary series of blunders, law-abiding citizens ranging from court ushers to teenage students have been labelled pornographers, thieves and violent robbers by the department's Criminal Records Bureau. The errors have led to people being refused jobs or university courses and even being threatened with the sack." >> Details here >>
So, with the Home Office having been caught up to its neck again, what do they do? Do they say sorry to the victims, and there could be thousands of them? Do they admit "yes, this is a case for not letting Crapita win any more contracts and for dismantling the Home Office empire"? No, they blame the victims for having similar names and dates of birth to convicted criminals. Not even the best sketchwriters in the world could make this up, could they?
This embarrassing, calamitous rabble that has the cheek to call itself a "government" is providing so many laughs at the moment. Were it not for the fact thousands of illegal immigrants now roam the streets, or for the fact we don't even know who's in the country and who isn't, I'd be rolling on the floor in howls of laughter. Can there now be anyone in the country who still believes our details would be safe with this lot? Can there now be anyone who believes ID cards would work? And can there now be anyone who doesn't think the Home Office needs to be torn down into several smaller ministries?
***waits for the inevitable claims that I'm stoking up fear, that I'm ranting aimlessly, that I'm not giving the government enough credit, that I don't remember how bad Thatcher was, and all the other crap that the Left throw at me on these occasions***
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The Mail on Sunday reported this morning: "Nearly 1,500 innocent people have been wrongly branded as criminals by the Home Office, leading to them losing jobs or being barred from taking up courses, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In an extraordinary series of blunders, law-abiding citizens ranging from court ushers to teenage students have been labelled pornographers, thieves and violent robbers by the department's Criminal Records Bureau. The errors have led to people being refused jobs or university courses and even being threatened with the sack." >> Details here >>
So, with the Home Office having been caught up to its neck again, what do they do? Do they say sorry to the victims, and there could be thousands of them? Do they admit "yes, this is a case for not letting Crapita win any more contracts and for dismantling the Home Office empire"? No, they blame the victims for having similar names and dates of birth to convicted criminals. Not even the best sketchwriters in the world could make this up, could they?
This embarrassing, calamitous rabble that has the cheek to call itself a "government" is providing so many laughs at the moment. Were it not for the fact thousands of illegal immigrants now roam the streets, or for the fact we don't even know who's in the country and who isn't, I'd be rolling on the floor in howls of laughter. Can there now be anyone in the country who still believes our details would be safe with this lot? Can there now be anyone who believes ID cards would work? And can there now be anyone who doesn't think the Home Office needs to be torn down into several smaller ministries?
***waits for the inevitable claims that I'm stoking up fear, that I'm ranting aimlessly, that I'm not giving the government enough credit, that I don't remember how bad Thatcher was, and all the other crap that the Left throw at me on these occasions***
Over to you...
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id also like to mention that im glad that they erred on the side of caution, and stopped around 25,000 people getting jobs that their records show they are unsuitable for, as opposed to letting them have the jobs, on the off chance that they might have the wrong person
yeh, we will let him have a job
SG you need to realise that yes, people will get pissed off and annoyed at this, but the whole point of creating the CRB checks is to stop those people getting jobs, that have unsuitable criminal convictions for, and i think the good of stopping those bad people getting those jobs, is far greater than one person (me in the example) not getting a job
on your exact point there, reverse it
how on earth would they ever know someone wasnt the bad nasty gareth
on that note, what do you recommend, scrap the CRB checks?
I don’t see how that’s the case. If they’ve wrongly criminalised somebody for having the same name and date of birth as a criminal they’ve surely decriminalised the actual criminal? It’s unacceptable regardless, a disgusting yet classic case of civil service incompetence. Only under a Labour government is there a correlation between the size of the civil service and cock-ups, as the size of the civil service has multiplied under Labour blunders have steadily increased.
Of course, we discovered that there are some paedophiles working in schools thanks to Department for Education cock-ups earlier this year, but that's for another thread.
Of course I don't recommend scrapping their checks. That would be ludicrous in the extreme. This simply shows incompetence from the CRB. One or two mistakes are understandable. But when the Government admits there have been at least 1500 errors they know of, (and this government can hardly be trusted with numbers at the best of times) something must be up.
then we are greatly saved and will have solved even global warming, enabling the world to tell hell to freeze over
So these checks are so flawed im going to kick up such a fuss about them, they are so flawed that they shouldnt actually be alowed to function
But lets continue with them because someone at leasts recognises the greater good from time to time
I'm glad The Mail on Sunday put this on the front page today, and I hope the daily newspapers kick up a huge fuss about it too.
So you are quite happy for these people not to get these "backhanders" and just give them an apology and correct the error?
These mistakes shouldn't be happening in the first place. They should be the exception, almost unheard of. As Disillusioned notes, it's no surprise that, as the number of Home Office staff increases, the number of Home Office cock-ups also rockets.
end of the day im only bothered about how little money they can get away with spending, on a scheme that doesnt work, to make it into something else that probly wont work
when they could infact buy some more nurses
Says the Beeb: "The head of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) has apologised to a woman rejected for teaching jobs after she was wrongly said to have convictions. Emma Budd, from Maesteg, was shown to have theft convictions on a CRB check made by potential employers. Chief executive Vince Gaskell said on Monday he wished to "apologise directly" to the 19-year-old." >> Details >>
OK, so this apology is genuine? Are we really meant to believe it has nothing to do with the fact you've been utterly shamed by the newspapers yesterday and today? Why is it they all start apologising the second the press get involved? :rolleyes:
That's quite forward looking for you SG, are you suggesting that illegal drug problems are largely a health issue and not criminal justice?
Oh, and the cleaners werent employed by the Home Office, they were contract cleaners and I'm sure if you checked half of the offices in London you'd find the same.
They did check, that's how they realised that they were illegal, the whole thing is a non-story, the only reason it even got to the papers is because we are in the middle of a xenophobia circle jerk at the moment.
From a personal POV, better them than me. We've had our rough ride for this 1/4.
But you are right, this story would have got minimal interest if it hadn't been for the multitude of stories recently - mainly involving immigration.
But this is the system working, illegal worker goes to work, they check them and realise - shock horror.
Where is the story in this?