A secret tunnel in a basement and a makeshift chute have been uncovered during a multi-agency operation to tackle the sale of illicit cigarettes and tobacco across Gravesend. Between Monday…
Four people have been arrested today (28 February) as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a group alleged to have smuggled migrants to the UK in boats from…
Six men who set up a storage base for a small boat people smuggling network in northern France have been jailed, after an investigation supported by the National Crime Agency.…
Border Force covers over 11,000 miles of mainland coastline, operating in and around small ports and marinas. It raises vigilance and awareness of suspicious behaviour which may be linked to…
A Dutch van driver has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, after the National Crime Agency investigated a seizure of more than 200 kilos of class A drugs at…
Margate Magistrates Court… Shops in Folkestone, selling illegal cigarettes and tobacco, have been ordered to close for three months by magistrates. Shanga Shop in Sandgate Road, Folkestone, and Star Shop,…
A man has been arrested in Gloucestershire in connection with the deaths of at least 27 people who drowned attempting to cross the English Channel in a dinghy last November.…
A lorry driver previously convicted in France for trying to smuggle migrants into the UK has been sentenced following a cocaine seizure earlier this year. Serhii Tukalo, 39, from Ukraine,…
Six people have been arrested after joint work between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and French authorities led to the dismantling of a people smuggling network storing boats in northern…
Natalie Elphicke MP raised concerns in Parliament Responding to the findings of a BBC News report on the Channel crossings, which showed a free French public bus traveling from the…
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