Labour's new Border Security Command (BSC) will get enhanced powers to stop and search suspected human traffickers, including seizing their phones and other devices.
Keir Starmer will today set out his 'personal mission' to smash people-trafficking gangs using new counter terrorism-style tactics.
Officials will be able to obtain search warrants to seize items from premises before an offence has even taken place - powers currently reserved only for anti-terror cases. Serious Crime Prevention Orders will be expanded to suspected gang members before they are even convicted to restrict their access to the internet, banking and travel.
He added that abandoning the Rwanda plan had sent a 'massive signal' to trafficking gangs that Britain was 'softening' its border defences, fuelling a surge in small boat crossings. More than 30,000 migrants have made the perilous journey in small boats across the Channel so far this year Read More Starmer to declare people smuggling a 'national security' issue - after PM is accused of 'surrendering' to gangs with 15,000 migrants having crossed the Channel since Labour took power A series of tragic deaths in the Channel in the last three weeks have brought 2024's death toll to 59, making this the deadliest year since the crisis began at the end of 2018.'I was elected to deliver security for the British people. And strong borders are a part of that.
'It is a shame that Starmer has not recognised the extent of the crisis in the Channel sooner, as he and the Labour Party voted against numerous measures to stop the gangs while they were in opposition.
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