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Watchdog: Missed chance to investigate smuggling gangs
Birmingham Mail
|May 17, 2025
OPPORTUNITIES to crack down on criminal smuggling gangs in England and Wales were missed by law enforcement agencies, a watchdog has warned.
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Despite cutting illegal migration to the UK being a priority for the Government, inspectors found intelligence gathering when migrants arrived in the UK was “neither effective or robust enough”.
In an inspection commissioned by the then-home secretary in 2024, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) looked at how effectively police forces and the National Crime Agency tackled organised immigration crime (OIC).
His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, Lee Freeman, said: “We found that the number of disruptions relating to OIC recorded had increased substantially.
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