Extract from Lords debate on Calais: Refugees - Nov 2
Friday, 3 November 2017 06:33
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Williams of Trafford)
(Con):...We also enjoy excellent law enforcement co-operation with
the French authorities and other European partners. We have
increased our intelligence sharing and operational co-operation
with the French through the establishment of the joint centre for
information and co-ordination in Calais. Through the Organised
Immigration Crime Taskforce, we have deployed officers from
the National Crime Agency, Border Force,...Request free trial
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Williams of
Trafford) (Con):...We also enjoy excellent law enforcement
co-operation with the French authorities and other European
partners. We have increased our intelligence sharing and
operational co-operation with the French through the establishment
of the joint centre for information and co-ordination in Calais.
Through the Organised Immigration Crime Taskforce, we have deployed
officers from the National Crime Agency, Border Force, Immigration
Enforcement and Crown Prosecution Service to numerous European
countries, including France, to work with law enforcement and
criminal justice partners on tackling the organised crime groups
that facilitate people smuggling. Just last week there were 11
arrests in the UK for people smuggling under Operation Halifax—a
Europe-wide investigation into an international organised crime
gang that was smuggling migrants across Europe and into the United
Kingdom. Key to our co-operation with European partners is the
intelligence exchanged through the European Migrant Smuggling
Centre, which leads Europol on organised immigration crime...
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