Birmingham Airport gets ready for single boarder force
21.02.08
Birmingham Airport is preparing to launch a Single Border Force when the UK Border Agency is launched in April. Visiting the airport yesterday, Immigration Minister Liam Byrne saw first hand how customs and immigration officers are working together to tackle the organised gangs smuggling drugs and supplying illegal workers to fuel the black economy.
Mr Byrne explained why customs and immigration officers are being brought together as one agency later this year. He said: ‘I came to Birmingham Airport today to find out how immigration and customs officers can work together more closely to protect the UK border. Our single border force, with new police powers, is the public face of the biggest shake-up of Britain's border security for 45 years.'
‘Criminals don't make the distinction between people and goods - they smuggle both because they stand to make a lot of money from the illegal trade. That's why we need one organisation - the UK Border Agency - to stop it.’
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