May splits Border Agency
THE UK Border Agency is to be dismantled, after a critical report found hundreds of thousands of people had been allowed into the country without full security checks.
Home secretary Theresa May told parliament yesterday that the UK Border Force, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the borders, would be split from the wider Border Agency, which also covers immigration policy.
The Force will be put under the control of a senior police officer, in order to foster “a whole new management culture”, May said.
A government-ordered report found that between 2007 and 2011, border staff waived some checks on around 500,000 Europeans arriving via Eurostar.
The report by John Vine also found that border checks were regularly suspended without the proper approvals.