> Staffing was cited as a major issue, with EU officials bemoaning an insufficient number of “suitably qualified staff so that official controls and other official activities can be performed efficiently and effectively”.
When you have graffiti painted on walls against the border checkpoints with threats to the staff in a country renown for sectarian violence you tend to find it hard to recruit staff for said posts. Enouigh suitably qualified staff isn’t the issue, enough suitably qualified staff willing to risk coming to harm because they work on the checkpoints is.
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> Staffing was cited as a major issue, with EU officials bemoaning an insufficient number of “suitably qualified staff so that official controls and other official activities can be performed efficiently and effectively”.
When you have graffiti painted on walls against the border checkpoints with threats to the staff in a country renown for sectarian violence you tend to find it hard to recruit staff for said posts. Enouigh suitably qualified staff isn’t the issue, enough suitably qualified staff willing to risk coming to harm because they work on the checkpoints is.
[Anti NIP propaganda campaign is in full swing from the Westminster Government](https://twitter.com/FCDOGovUK/status/1486338073864585224). Such a great deal they secured – even gave Frost a peerage because of it!