Sentences with phrase «border agencies»

Red notices are recorded on Interpol's databases for instant circulation to police forces and border agencies around the world.

Labour today announces a plan to make Britain's communities safer, by putting thousands more frontline staff into critical public services, including police, fire, prison, intelligence and border agencies.

More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in Europe this year, 60,000 through Italy alone, according to the EU's border agency Frontex.

As many as 500,000 migrants have arrived so far this year, according to Europe's border agency, Frontex.

The reputation of the Home Office, and by extension, the UK Government, is being tarnished by the inability of the UK Border Agency to fulfil its basic functions.

Rape victims often fail to mention the attack because of the harsh, unsympathetic attitude of UK Border Agency officers and sometimes their own sense of shame.

Rape victims, for instance, often fail to mention the attack because of the harsh, unsympathetic attitude of UK Border Agency officers and their own culturally - induced shame.

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Interestingly, the UK Border Agency — responsible for securing the UK border at air, rail and sea ports and migration controls — was set up in 2008 following a very similar set of criticisms that forced the then Labour Home Secretary John Reid to declare that the Home Office's immigration directorate was «not fit for purpose» and that a single Agency was needed to secure effective and efficient management of the UK border.

The planned strike on Wednesday 5 August by members of the Public and Commercial Services union in the UK Border Agency has been called off.

Second, the report criticises the UKBA because «[it] is still losing almost half of the appeals brought against it» and recommends that «systems must be put in place to improve the Border Agency's appeal figures».

That investigation will run at the same time as an Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into UK Border Agency (UKBA) spot - checks at British tube stations, after fears were raised that officers were using racial profiling to select who to speak to about their immigration status.

The report appears to raise concerns about the «Lille loophole» — a way of avoiding UK Border Agency (UKBA) checks by travelling to Britain from Brussels via Lille — but this section is among those redacted by the home secretary.

Vine, J. (2011), «Preventing and detecting immigration and customs offences: A thematic inspection of how the UK Border Agency receives and uses intelligence»,

Issues of asylum and immigration have been an issue of controversy in recent weeks, with the home secretary's decision to split the UK Border Agency after a scandal over lax passport checks emerged.

Home secretary Theresa May pledges an investigation of the UK Border Agency after it emerged border controls were relaxed this summer:

G4S subcontractors Target Housing Association, who would not be paid by the UK Border Agency if she stayed there, set the eviction for the same day she was supposed to go to the local hospital to have the birth induced.

That was my assessment and it is the assessment of UK Border Agency (UKBA) and security officials,» Ms May said.

Yesterday the UK Border Agency's policy of detention of torture victims was described as «inhumane» by a UN human rights council representative to Britain.

Theresa May split the UK Border Agency in half today, in a bid to kill the controversy around reduced immigration checks.

In September 2009, Home Office Director of Criminality and Detention at the UK Border Agency and former Assistant Commissioner at the Met, Dave Wood, was called before the Home Affairs Committee.

The report makes the case for dividing the functions of the UK Border agency.

The largest trade union in the UK Border Agency has waded in on the criticism against Theresa May, with the PCS alleging there are inadequate contingencies and a lack of properly trained staff manning our borders

By working in close liaison with the UK Border Agency (UKBA), JobCentres, social services and local authorities, welfare advisors serve as powerful advocates for torture survivors.

The finding has led many analysts to question whether the government recent anti-immigration initiatives, such as the so - called «racist vans» and spot checks by UK Border Agency staff, might do more damage than good to the Tories» election strategy.

The Home Office's attitude to immigration has noticeably hardened recently, with tweets of immigration raids, spot checks by UK Border Agency staff and a mobile van telling illegal immigrants in certain boroughs of London to «go home».

11:00 - former head of the UK Border Force Bodie Clark and UK Border Agency chief executive Rob Whiteman, before home affairs committee, on: Border checks during Summer 2011

Labour has piled on the accusations, saying leaked documents reveal private jet passengers were not seen by Border Agency staff at all.

The department admitted it faced a # 8.9 million liability for cases of unlawful detention against the UK Border Agency (UKBA).

«But none of this can excuse the fundamentally unsafe state of Brook House, which must be urgently addressed by G4S [the contractor] and the UK Border Agency.»

And Gavin Barwell had a particular constituency interest to raise since those wanting to claim asylum have to visit the UK Border Agency in his Croydon Central constituency:

Confirmation that the UK Border Agency has revoked the London Met's highly trusted status, meaning its international students are not permitted visas to study in the UK, came as new figures showed the government was beginning to make progress on its goal of cutting back on immigration.

The UK Border Agency faces a humiliating attack from MPs today, who have mocked it for its «euphemistic» management - speak.

The UK Border Agency has issued contracts worth # 1.7 billion.

Ms Smith will be taking questions as part of her remit as Home Secretary with a focus on the Border Agency and the neighbourhood policing teams operating in local areas.

The UK Border Agency is satisfied she did not knowingly employ an illegal worker,» Mr Brown said.

Unfortunately for the coalition, the same report also highlighted that the UK Border Agency (UKBA) had failed to pick up on tip - offs it had received relating to individuals overstaying on student visas.

Multiple failures at the UK Border Agency (UKBA) are ruining the government's reputation, the home affairs committee has concluded.

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That the IPCC's jurisdiction should be expanded to cover private sector providers of police services, along with Home Office bodies like the UK Border Agency.

«It was an administrative decision taken by the UK Border Agency, and so they should,» he said.

They have been instrumental in the union's campaign against cuts to front line UK Border Agency staff in Kent, as well as a campaign against a cut in agreed allowances for UKBA staff working on immigration controls in northern France.

«Detainee escorts have a very difficult job to do in carrying out what the public expects of the UK Border Agency in enforcing our immigration laws,» David Wood of the UK Border Agency said.

The UK Border Agency has announced a massive increase in the number of immigrant removal centres.

A Downing Street spokesman later said the «operational decision» to dispose of the documents was taken by the UK Border Agency, meaning it would not have come across the desk of the then Labour Home Secretary.

This represents just over 30 per cent of the privately funded institutions previously on the UK Border Agency's register...

Today the Times reveals that up to one million illegal immigrants may be living in Britain and many will never be deported, according to a former head of the UK Border Agency.

A comparison of heroin purity levels in batches seized by the UK Border Agency and the police in 2007/08 showed it was 54 % pure on import, 51 % at street.

ensuring the UK Border Agency and HMRC work together more closely to come down hard on rogue businesses which use illegal labour to evade tax and minimum wage laws.

... including by reporting suspected illegal immigrants to our Border Agency through the Crimestoppers phone line or through the Border Agency website.