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June 13thUK Home Secretary, Theresa May, visited Heathrow airport to view first hand
Anti-forgery equipment, drug detection scanners and border control check systems
- Source - Home Office
UK Home Secretary Theresa May was given a tour of Terminal 5, where she met frontline officers who demonstrated the lastest detection technology
Anti-forgery equipment, drug detection scanners and border control checks were seen
first-hand today by the new UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, when she visited Heathrow
airport.
The new Home Secretary was given a tour of Terminal 5, where she met frontline officers and was given a chance to see the latest detection technology in action.
During her airport visit, the Home Secretary saw our staff at the border as they checked passports and quizzed passengers. She was also given a demonstration
by detection dogs, saw forgery detection equipment and watched as officers used the latest technology to search bags for hidden, smuggled substances.
Home Secretary Theresa May said:
'Keeping Britain's border secure is a priority for this government - which is why it is crucial that we have vigilant border staff utilising the latest technology in our
fight against the people traffickers, drug smugglers and illegal immigrants determined to come here and cause harm.
'The new government is committed to introducing a limit on the number of non-EEA migrants who come here to work, contributing to a reduction in net migration
back to the levels of the early 1990s - tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands. If this is to happen successfully, our border must be stronger than ever before.'
Recent UK Border Agency successes at Heathrow include:
- officers stopping more than 14 attempts to use forged or stolen documents to enter the UK illegally in a week. These comprised five cases
of impersonation of the rightful holder of the document, four cases of substituted passport photographs, three cases of substituted passport photograph pages,
one case of a falsified UK visa and one case of a fraudulently obtained UK passport.
The latter case involved a 54-year-old Bangladeshi man found with a fraudulently obtained UK passport of a 73-year-old. He had originally entered the UK 10 years
earlier using a passport in the same false identity. This had been obtained for him by an agent. He had no family in the UK, and was refused and removed to
Bangladesh the next day.
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