PA
The plans for a border force are being drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers
Posted on 06/23/2008 11:59:15 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A new 3,000-strong police force dedicated to securing the UK's borders has been unveiled in policing plans announced by the Home Secretary.
PA
The plans for a border force are being drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers
Jacqui Smith said that senior officers had proposed a single force, run by its own chief constable, which will include uniformed officers on patrol and Special Branch to fight terrorism.
It signals a harder approach to illegal immigration, which has surged in the past decade and has stretched police forces tacking gun crime, drug and people trafficking across Britain.
The force will protect Britain's 71 international and major regional airports, 10,500 miles of coastline and 27 major sea ports.
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It’s a start.
This is good news.
The picture comically gives the impression that all entrants to the UK will pass through a road in Putney, where they will be menaced by a hundred rozzers - some armed with cricket bats. Which would be ok by me, obviously.
Sounds like a plan.
A “Border Force” for an island?
So.....
Muslims roaring onto the beaches in jet boats?
Welshmen chasing errant soccer balls into England?
And the US can’t get it together to build a fence???!!! Give me a break!!! Even the Brits are getting the message
So does this mean they are reconstructing Hadrian’s Wall?
They aren’t building a border fence in the U.K. That’s nonsense.
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