Border Security Command Gets £75 Million to Tackle Illegal Immigration

The new Border Security Command has received a “significant, immediate cash injection” of £75 million to support the multi-agency unit with tackling illegal immigration crime, the government has announced. The investment will be spent on purchasing state-of-the-art monitoring technology such as covert cameras and establishing a new unit to improve intelligence-sharing across the UK’s police forces, the Home Office said on Tuesday. The funding also covers recruiting additional personnel, including 100 more specialist investigators at the National Crime Agency (NCA). NCA Director General of Operations Rob Jones said that it is currently leading around 70 investigations into organised illegal immigration crime gangs, and was devoting more resources to the endeavour than ever before....