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Scottish Daily Express
|August 12, 2025
MORE than 300 suspected people smugglers have been arrested and 52 criminal gang networks smashed in the five years the National Crime Agency has been working with French police.
The Joint Intelligence Cell (JIC) said the gangs had been operating on French soil.
They were dismantled as a result of NCA officers working with their French counterparts.
The NCA said many of the groups had been involved in orchestrating small-boat crossings on the Channel.
It comes amid growing pressure on law enforcement to shut off the supply of rigid inflatable boats to disrupt the people smuggling gangs.
This story is from the August 12, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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