Govt: Counter-terror powers can reduce small boat crossings

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Home Office minister, Mike Tapp, says that new counter-terror powers will help the UK "take out the smuggling gangsters" as well as reducing small boat crossings. New powers that have come into force today will allow officers at migrant processing centres to take mobile phones from illegal migrants without arresting them. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Yeah, this is a really important measures coming into play today.

00:04Now, I've worked against criminal gangs in the past, but also in a counter-terror role.

00:07So I've seen how these counter-terror powers can make a difference.

00:11It's about getting to the criminals and the terrorists before they act.

00:16And today, those on the borders will have the powers to seize mobile phones and SIM cards

00:22when people cross on small boats.

00:24And what that does is it gives us access, potentially, to more intelligence

00:29so that we can work upstream and domestically to take out the smuggling gangsters

00:34and reduce the small boat crossings.

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