£75 million to tackle people smugglers

£75 million to tackle people smugglers

£75 million to tackle people smugglers

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced £75 million in funding to increase the number of Border Force officers and tackle people smugglers. Also people trafficking.

The UK’s Border Security Command will deliver cutting-edge new technology, additional officers and further covert capabilities across the system, following a significant, immediate injection of capital, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced today.

The investment comes ahead of an expected attempt by the smuggling gangs to cram ever more vulnerable people into unseaworthy boats launched from the French coast as long as the weather holds. Their industrial-scale smuggling business is under sustained pressure from coordinated UK and European law enforcement partners.

The Home Secretary announced the package of up to £75 million, which refocuses funds originally allocated to the previous government’s Illegal Migration Act. It will unlock cutting-edge new technology and additional capabilities for the NCA to strengthen UK border security and disrupt criminal people smuggling gangs. The investment is designed to build on a pattern of successful upstream disruptions announced at an operational summit attended by the Prime Minister at the NCA’s headquarters last week.

The funding will also cover an additional 100 specialist investigators for the NCA, announced by the government last month, representing a 25% increase in the agency’s dedicated staff tackling organised immigration crime.

The government also announced a 50% increase in the number of British officers at Europol, in a move that will support European operations to dismantle organised crime groups that facilitate people smuggling.

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