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Refugees increasingly using small boats to slip into UK undetected | Home News | News | The Independent
Refugees increasingly using small boats to slip into UK undetected | Home News | News | The Independent
A British tour boat operator says he has rescued scores of refugees from the English Channel in the past year, warning that the problem of small migrant boats slipping into the UK undetected is getting worse.
James Salmon, the owner of Dover Sea Safari, told Sky News people smugglers are increasingly chartering tiny vessels to make the treacherous journey across major shipping lanes.
Three Iranian refugees were intercepted by the UK Border Force on Tuesday alone, after their boat was spotted by a passing ferry.
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And Tony Smith, former director of the borders agency, told the broadcaster there was a “new and emerging threat” in the Channel, the likes of which we are most used to seeing in the Mediterranean.
“It’s impossible to patrol 2,000 miles of UK coastline. This is a new threat for us,” he said.
“It is something we need to respond to.”
But he added that it was not just a matter to be laid “at the door of the Border Force”.
“What is required is collaboration between all of the agencies… to make sure that our resources are properly commanded, properly controlled to enable us to eliminate this new and emerging threat.
James Salmon, the owner of Dover Sea Safari, told Sky News people smugglers are increasingly chartering tiny vessels to make the treacherous journey across major shipping lanes.
Three Iranian refugees were intercepted by the UK Border Force on Tuesday alone, after their boat was spotted by a passing ferry.
READ MORE
Refugees 'as likely to die' off UK coast as in the Mediterranean
And Tony Smith, former director of the borders agency, told the broadcaster there was a “new and emerging threat” in the Channel, the likes of which we are most used to seeing in the Mediterranean.
“It’s impossible to patrol 2,000 miles of UK coastline. This is a new threat for us,” he said.
“It is something we need to respond to.”
But he added that it was not just a matter to be laid “at the door of the Border Force”.
“What is required is collaboration between all of the agencies… to make sure that our resources are properly commanded, properly controlled to enable us to eliminate this new and emerging threat.
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