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| The crisis-hit Home Office could be split into two departments under recommendations put forward by Home Secretary John Reid. | The crisis-hit Home Office could be split into two departments under recommendations put forward by Home Secretary John Reid. |
| One department would deal with security and the other with justice, said BBC correspondent James Hardy. | |
| Mr Reid said part of the department was not fit for purpose when he took over last year, and is presiding over a shake-up to improve performance. | |
| The Home Office has been hit by a series of blunders in recent months. | The Home Office has been hit by a series of blunders in recent months. |
| Mr Reid is recommending a separate national security department which would be responsible for anti-terrorism policy, immigration and the security services. | |
| Review | |
| Alongside it would be a new ministry of justice which would have control of probation, prisons and stopping reoffending. | |
| The recommendations are the result of a review Mr Reid set in motion last May when he moved into the Home Office. | |
| He took over as home secretary after Charles Clarke was sacked in a row over foreign criminals released from prison without being considered for deportation. | |
| Mr Reid pledged to "sort out" the Home Office after saying that its immigration operation was "not fit for purpose". | |
| Earlier this month it emerged that more than 27,000 case files on Britons who had committed crimes abroad, including rape and murder, had not been entered on the police computer. |