British police to be deployed in Europe to fight people smugglers

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1. Sounds much better than shipping migrants to Rwanda, probably cheaper too

2. This is all well and good, but we can’t even police here let alone abroad!

3. Actually going for the source and not dealing with the symptoms sounds like a good idea.

4. Are British Police simply better than European Police?

5. What police? Has no one told her we don’t have any left. Seriously thought, how will it work with our European neighbours, somehow I doubt we can just fly over to Hungary and arrest people.

6. That headline skips over the most meaningful bit.

   “The so-called Eurodac fingerprint system could pave the way for a new returns deal with the EU under which Britain would send Channel migrants back to Europe.

   In return, Britain could take asylum seekers or at least unaccompanied children from Europe with a family connection to the UK.”

   This being essentially the only sensible way to end deaths in the Channel.

7. This is not a criticism by me, just curious how this will happen? The article reads as if this is a guaranteed thing to happen, but how do we know countries in Europe and the EU will co-operate with this? Our security and defence co-operation has weakened. For example, we lost access to the EU’s criminal database, Schengen Information System II, as a result of Brexit, albeit we have the use of Interpol. We may get access to a new system by the end of the decade, where we might not even have a Labour government.

   So what is happening in the pipeline? Is improving EU relations well under way? What deal is being made? Or is it simply that the EU wants to stop smuggling gangs too and needs these officers help in an all hands on deck situation.

8. British Snipers back on the beaches of France! C’mon lads!

9. Hmm, will this go as well as the previous agreements we had whilst in the EU? Where we received more than we were able to send back..?

10. What sort of authority grants UK police to do work overseas? This is idiotic.

11. Woah a sensible government policy, I wasn’t sure this was possible anymore after the last 14 years but I’ll be damned.

12. I have said that 100 times.

    Just to show that Tories knew the source of the problem but insisted in the xenophobic “Stop the boats” and “Fly them to Rwanda” so people keep voting on the them. Tories are evil.

13. How about we deploy British police in Britain to stop crimes here?

14. What, an actual practical plan to deal with a given problem? I can’t remember the last time we saw anything like this

15. All it took was the complete evisceration of the Tory party to get sensible policy.

16. Let’s tip the smugglers off with our strategy moving forward.

17. Turns out working with your neighbours helps a neighbourhood issue

18. The BBC found a people trafficker in Luxembourg IIRC. But then they have better detective skills and work ethic than plod

19. Put a bobby in a deck chair on the beach. Arrest anyone putting migrants in a dingy. Job done. 👍

20. What people don’t understand in this thread is as follows:

    The extra officers will be NCA police officers attached to the international division of the NCA.

    The NCA international division already operate out of every country in Europe.

    They are tasked with preventing crimes taking place in other countries from entering into our country.

    The extra NCA officers will be tasked to crack down on the gangs that are organising the boat crossings.

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22. In 2021. It was worked out that the NHS spends about £4100 per person in the UK. I wonder what 50000 x £4100 would be. For the lazy people. It’s £205 000 000 a year.  

    After ten years it will be this a year

     50000 x 10  = 500000 people. 

     500000 x 4100 = £2 050 000 000 a year. 

     So that is just In NHS costs. Imagine what it would be including all the other incentives, safety nets and benefits people in the UK get 

     Tldr So an extra £2 Billion in costs to the NHS a year every ten years just from the boats It’s a bit more when you take onto account the kids people will have. 

23. This won’t work. No matter what countries like France say, they are more than happy to allow migrants to cross the channel and risk their lives because it ceases to be their problem once they do.

    Migrants are so focused on getting the UK they will keep coming until there is a real deterrent. Rwanda had the right idea it was just executed wrong, the decision making process should be made outside of the UK to prevent migrants from vanishing the second they get here.

    People smugglers are a problem but there’s more than plenty of migrants who risk their lives to reach the UK of their own free will. There needs to be a deterrent to stop them or they’ll just keep trying.

24. Tackling the wrong issue. It’s a huge industry and we’re totally failing to tackle the demand side of the equation. We might get rid of one gang but the pickings are so rich another will take its place

25. There’s a fucking adult at the table oh my fucking god I can BREATHE

26. Great even less police to tackle crime here in the UK

27. Have they thought of just sending to the French beaches with pointy sticks?

28. Horrifying. The Rwanda plan was loopy but this seems utterly feeble.

29. Can’t we just smuggle them somewhere else? Then we can collect the smuggle fees as well! That can buy alot of doctor who

30. I always thought of this as a European problem, so Europe should have targeted the gangs smuggling to Italy.