The funding will pay for up to 300 more National Crime Agency officers and new technology and equipment to step up intelligence-gathering on smuggling gangs
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The funding will pay for up to 300 more National Crime Agency officers and new technology and equipment to step up intelligence-gathering on smuggling gangs
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The government will pour an extra £100m into efforts to tackle migration as pressure piles on ministers to crack down on small boat crossings.
With crossings over 25,000, Border Security Command says new funding will ramp up the UK’s fight against smuggling gangs
Home Office’s announcement follows growing number of protests outside asylum seeker hotels
The Home Secretary will tell MPs police are tackling small boat gangs and the Government is acting to overhaul the asylum system.
The home secretary insisted the government will ‘get on with the hard graft, roll up our sleeves and do it step by step’
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Charities warned the changes would ‘push more desperate people into the arms of smugglers in an effort to reunite with loved…
