Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Police numbers have fallen in six out of 10 forces, figures showed, as senior officers signalled more cuts are on the way.
Three forces, south Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Avon and Somerset, lost more than 50 officers last year.
Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, is quoted:
“Instead of [...]

According to Public Servant magazine:
The new border security programme e-borders has hit its target of processing 100 million annualised passenger movements per year.
This means e-borders has captured the travel document information (TDI) for 147 million passengers
Despite the large figures, borders minister Phil Woolas said in a parliamentary written answer that the programme has not yet [...]

Michael White writes in The Guardian:
When Tony Blair moved into Downing Street his chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, used to tell visitors how the new prime minister would replace Whitehall’s feudal baronies with a Napoleonic model of government – a results-oriented regime driven from No 10.
A decade or so later the highly politicised, command-and-control approach, [...]

Joe Fay, writing in The Register, calculates that at the present rate that ID cards are being issued, it would take at least 136 years before the entire population is recorded in the ID register. However, he concludes:
The ace up the government’s sleeve is that if you don’t want an ID card, you’ll still end [...]

The Home Office seems to have quietly announced a policy of not enforcing parts of the Identity Cards Act 2006.
Tom Espiner writes on the ZDnet web site:
[Phil] Booth said that once people have signed up to the National Identity Register, they have a legal obligation under the Identity Cards Act to update information — such [...]