Sir Keir Starmer’s government is hiring 100 specialist intelligence officers and plans to expand the immigration detention estate as part of a drive to increase returns of failed asylum seekers to levels last seen in 2018.
The Home Office on Wednesday said up to 100 such officials and investigators would be recruited and deployed to the National Crime Agency in order to “disrupt and smash criminal smuggling gangs” and prevent “dangerous” small boat Channel crossings.
It also said bed capacity at two immigration removal centres — Campsfield near Oxford and Haslar in Hampshire — would rise by 290 as part of efforts to increase both enforced and voluntary returns of asylum seekers whose applications had been rejected.
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