High standards of integrity are essential if public confidence in the police service is to be restored. This is the message from two reports. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary have produced ‘Police Integrity: securing and maintaining public confidence’ and a Home Office group published their findings on ‘Understanding and Preventing Police Corruption: lessons from the literature’. 

A task force of Ministers, led by the Minister for Public Health, will co-ordinate action across Whitehall departments, the health service and local government to cut teenage pregnancy. The target is to cut pregnancies by half by 2010. The task force will be supported by an implementation unit in the Department of Health. There will also be a National Advisory Group to advise Government and monitor the success of the strategy.