UK has too many migrants to keep track of – crisis is spiralling & Labour CAN’T fix it, warns expert
Ministers now want to hire firms for “a wider intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance package to collect high-quality footage of criminality to support prosecutions”.
Contract details insist they “must be capable of detecting, identifying and classifying a broad range of targets, including people, vehicles, and vessels”.A Home Office invitation for tenders said: “Aerial surveillance is required as part of a wider Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance package to support decision making and the tasking and coordination of operational assets; and to collect high-quality footage of criminality to support potential prosecutions.
“These dangerous crossings undermine our border security and threaten lives, while lining the pockets of criminal gangs. This contract will support our mission to secure our borders.”Brits told NOT to go A&E as major hospitals swamped by 'tidal wave' of flu Last month three men who made several failed attempts to transport migrants across the Channel were convicted following a National Crime Agency investigation.
Freddy Lawrence, 57, of Folkestone pleaded guilty and Keith Baigent, 63, also from Folkestone, and 64-year-old Paul Giglia, from Cheriton were convicted in November to assisting unlawful immigration.
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