£100m to boost UK small boats enforcement

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Border Security Minister Dame Angela Eagle says new funding will help “turbocharge” efforts to target smuggling gangs and illegal working.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well it's a hundred million pounds of extra money to the board security command

00:04that will allow us to employ 300 extra officers at the National Crime Agency

00:10who do a lot of the intelligence gathering and the work to interdict some of the smuggling gangs.

00:18It will allow us to intensify our work against illegal employment,

00:23so that's immigration enforcement doing that.

00:28It will also pay for the one-in-one-out returns deal with the French.

00:36So it'll allow us to have a step change to turbocharge our activities

00:42against the organised immigration smuggling gangs

00:45that are exploiting people and putting lives at risk in the Channel.

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