Home Secretary to Create UK Border Security Command to Stop Small Boats

Published on July 8, 2024

The new Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the establishment of a new UK Border Security Command to tackle the small boats crisis in the English Channel. The Home Office said the process for recruiting a border security commander, to report directly to the home secretary, will begin on Monday. Whoever is appointed is expected to take up their post in the coming weeks. The commander will be a “leader used to working in complex and challenging environments, for example at senior levels of policing, intelligence or the military.” They will “provide strategic direction to work across agencies” including the National Crime Agency (NCA), the intelligence agencies, police, Immigration Enforcement, and Border Force, according to the department....

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