About us

Our objectives and values

Our purpose

Our aim is to protect the public and secure our future.

The Home Office leads a national effort to protect the public from terror, crime and anti-social behaviour. We secure our borders and welcome legal migrants and visitors. We safeguard identity and citizenship. We help build the security, justice and respect that enable people to prosper in a free and tolerant society.

Our objectives

To protect the public, we focus on seven key objectives:

1. help people feel safer in their homes and local communities 
2. suppport visible, responsive and accountable policing
3. protect the public from terrorist attack
4. cut crime, especially violent, drug and alcohol-related crime
5. strengthen our borders, fast track asylum decisions, ensure and enforce compliance with our immigration laws, and boost Britain's economy
6. safeguard people's identity and the privileges of citizenship
7. work with our partners to build an efficient, effective and proportionate criminal justice system

Find out more about our purpose and priorities, and how we are reforming the Home Office to deliver our objectives by reading Reforming the Home Office.

Our values

The values we developed in consultation with our staff and stakeholders, underpin how we will achieve our objectives, and guide our everyday behaviour:

• we deliver for the public
• we are professional and innovative
• we work openly and collaboratively
• we treat everyone with respect 

 

See Also

• Crime and victims
• Security
• Passports and immigration