Clandestine Entry to the United Kingdom Ian Brough Secretariat and Risk Projects Manager Intelligenc

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Clandestine Entry to the United Kingdom Ian
BroughSecretariat and Risk Projects Manager
Intelligence Directorate
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Intelligence Mission Statement
Working together to deliver the intelligence to
manage our borders from the threat of irregular
migration and related crime, thereby reducing the
harm to the UK.
Our Aims
To reduce organised and international crime,
including trafficking in people, in co-operation
with other law enforcement agencies, European
Union partners and the wider community.
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History Contexts

• Migration growth
• 1992 UK asylum c 20,000 pa
• 1998 UK asylum -gt 90,000 pa
• 2003 to 2006 down to 25,000 pa
• How we reduced it. Reasons include-
• Airline Liaison Officers across the globe
• New visa regimes
• Better Intelligence on clandestine entry
• Fast track processing
• Juxtaposing the UK Kent border control to
  France.

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The UK Juxtaposed Border Controls in France

• Calais, Boulogne, Dunkerque and Coquelles
• Standard passport controls and
• Intensive freight search operations,
  by BIA, also French Immigration Police ports
  security contractors
• New Detection Technology PMMWI,
  Heart Beat Detector, Co2 and other
• Challenging the industry to refine the
  equipment further

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How many? How?

• 2006 c17,000 detections in the four ports
• Overwhelming majority in HGV
• Some D.I.Y axle grabbing
• Others pay for assistance to break in
  facilitation offences duress at railway stations
• Cost is rising (We may be winning)
• Some succeed, some die

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Why UK?

• Not just state welfare benefits
• Employment possibilities
• Health care
• Education
• Pre-existing immigrant communities
• X factor English speaking, rule of law, no ID
  cards etc

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The law

• Offence to facilitate unlawful entry to UK
• Max penalty raised to 14 years
• Severer penalty to traffic women/children for
  vice
• Offence to employ foreigner not entitled to work
  here
• Civil Penalty for carrying clandestines - lt2000
  per head and potential confiscation
• Other impacts delay damage to goods carried

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Analysis

• Overwhelming majority of clandestine detections
  are in soft sided vehicles, both accompanied and
  unaccompanied. Easier for opportunist
  clandestines to gain access.
• Knife may well have been used to gain entry
• At least 80 are assisted by Organised Criminal
  Groups, at some stage in the journey to the UK.
  Links to other crime
• Many clandestines make repeated attempts, often
  more dangerous than the last.

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The Future

• Better Technology More biometrics
• More sharing of same with European partners
• More juxtaposed controls abroad
• More joint operations on East South European
  land and sea borders -
• More mobile teams for smaller ports around the UK

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Contact Details
Ian Brough 020 8757 3723 Border and Immigration
Agency Intelligence Directorate INTEL.INDIS.MARI
TIMEGA_at_homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk