HeyJaredTony Smith CBE
Border Security Consultant. Former DG UK Border Force. MD Fortinus Global Ltd. Chairman IBMATA. Author “changing borders - a kingdom unlocked”.
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Small Boats, Big Boats, What’s going on? (opens the original)
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For the past few years we’ve been playing political football with the small boats crisis. When the channel crossings first began, many commentators thought this would just be a flash in the pan. Crossing the English channel in a dinghy was deemed by many maritime experts to be implausible. These were busy shipping lanes with choppy sea conditions rendering any such crossing as “extremely unlikely”. Even when I raised this as a potential risk back in my day in the Border Force I was told not to w
Why the U.K. is still missing dangerous small boat arrivals - and how to fix it. (opens the original)
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By Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of UK Border ForceThe BBC’s recent discovery of a convicted French peoplesmuggler living freely in the UK deserves real credit. It was determined, publicinterest journalism — and it may now help bring a dangerous offender to justice. But it also exposes a deeper structural problem in the way the UK screens undocumented smallboat arrivals. Official sources tell us that the UK has lost critical European security tools since Brexit, and that our domestic s
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