New crime to endanger life to target small boat crossings

Under the schemes announced by Home Secretary Yatete Cooper, people smuggling people with a new criminal offense to endanger life in the sea can be accused.

The border officials will get powers to seize the migrants’ phones in search of intelligence, which helped them cross the English channel.

The main piece of law aims to deal with organized crime gangs in its earlier stages in their plans to illegally move people illegally.

The package retains some powers initiated by the conservators, including long forms of detention for some migrants and when someone says they are smuggled into slavery, it can live in the UK.

But Cooper has confirmed that the former government’s plan to forcibly take some asylum plans to Rwanda will be canceled.

Anti-terrorism cases include new equipment inspired by successes, a court order to ban the suspects by traveling or promoting the suspects on social media.

The new crime of threatening life in the sea can give rise to prosecution of anyone who arrives on a small and unsafe boat in the UK, where they have been intimidated or forced to the passengers of others or British water By refusing to be rescued, putting your life at risk.

Officials said they would come to migrants who managed to get into a small boat, then kept the children out to stop others from climbing inside.

A senior law enforcement officer said that investigators often found themselves “treating the victims in a floating crime site.”

Other measures in Border Security, Relations and Immigration Bills The purpose is to make gangs easy for law enforce Have to wait to do it.

Ministers hope that these powers would mean that the police will be able to arrest and charge more gang members, or will seek their extradition from abroad before the boats left France.

The proposed powers are based on legal principles, which have been used for 20 years to catch suspected militants in very early stages of their plan.

One of these “initial” powers would be a crime of handling or selling parts of the boat, where there is a doubt that business is for smuggling people.

Those who promote crossings, take booking and also arrange potential passengers to meet boats in northern France, they can also face prosecution.

The order of prevention of severe crime, the power to restrict the freedom of criminals, will be improved so that the National Crime Agency temporarily implements the circumstances on the lives of suspected smugglers, while they create a case.

Those situations may include restrictions on travel, internet and use of mobile phones and how they can take money.

Cooper said: “In the last six years, criminal smuggling gangs have been allowed to catch with our boundaries, excluding millions of small boats.

“This bill will equip our law enforcement agencies with the powers that they need to stop these lowly criminals, disrupt their supply chains and bring more of those who benefit from human grief to justice.

“These new counter terror-style powers … will turbocharged efforts to break the gang.”

Ministers say that the law is part of a comprehensive strategy, which includes recently built Border Security Commander Power to coordinate and lead interactions with foreign law enforcement agencies.

Recently with Germany, a deal has seen the country agreeing to present a new crime of illegal immigration in Britain, so investigators can target gangs working in the country. Bulgarian officials have started using health and safety laws to seize inflatable shipments from Türkiye.

But law enforcement heads say that they also want new powers at home.

Police believe that smuggling people include hundreds instead of thousands of criminals, and “was not like drugs trade”.

“You can make a difference with concrete efforts and laws” he told reporters, on a background briefing that the speakers will not be named.

In a recent example, Amanj Hasan Zada ​​was in jail for 17 years to organize a small boat crossing from Preston.

The National Crime Agency won only with evidence of linking its activities with specific crossings in the last November case.

Under the proposed new powers, investigators would just have to show the suspects such as Zada ​​had prepared, such as funding boats or promoting crossings.

Border Security Commander, Martin Hewitt said: “These important measures will reduce our enforcement action throughout the system, and along with our strong relationships with international partners, we will bring these gangs down and all for all. “