Border Agency warns forgers,smugglers, and traffickers
by Mary Jones - February 24, 2010
United Kingdom, February 24: Smugglers, forgers, traffickers, beware! For UK Border Agency has been named as the largest anti-crime
enforcement body of the UK.
This was confirmed by Phil Woolas, Border and Immigration Minister at the conference of European Serious Organized Crime.
The law enforcement body is fully authorized to tackle those immigrants in the UK who try to play by the rules, Woolas stated. The officials of the UKBA can now use immigration powers to overtake foreign criminals who damage local communities.
Woolas warned all smugglers, traffickers and forgers against playing with immigration rules or face prosecution and finally, deportation from the country.
The UK Border Agency has been made stronger than ever before and the workers of the various immigration offices remain in constant touch with the government agencies, police and the local authorities to target any incidence of immigration crime.
‘Protecting our border, protecting the public’, the new five-year strategy of the UK immigration was launched by the immigration minister Woolas. Woolas claimed that all undocumented immigrants and other foreign criminals will be combated by the newer and stronger strategy of UK immigration.
Principle actions for controlling immigration and border crime include----
• ‘e-border’ checks- Till date, 5,000 people involved in rape, fraud and murder have been arrested;
• Providing access to training and detection technology to other nations and also to the special fraud unit of Nigeria’s Police Force
to help in tracking suppliers and manufacturers of fraudulent documents;
• UK Border Agency joining hands with CIFAS(fraud prevention agency) in 2010;
• UKBA stopping 42,000 passengers without adequate documents from boarding UK flights in 2009;
• 350 potential victims of human smuggling(including 104 children) identified between April and September 2009;
• Illicit drugs worth £343 million, 3,165,849 items of piracy, 5,800 dangerous weapons seized between April 2008 and March 2009;
• New scanners for detection of smuggled goods at port.
The UKBA works in collaboration with agencies including Association of Chief Police Officers, Serious Organized Crime Agency, police forces, Department of Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs, UK human trafficking centre, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency,Crown Prosecution Service and various bodies including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, foreign governments, airlines and hauliers.
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