The Border Security Command will bring together intelligence agencies, police and border force officials to tackle the smuggling gangs behind small boat crossings.
Martin Hewitt's unique expertise will lead a new era of international enforcement to dismantle these networks, protect our shores and bring order to the asylum system.
I am determined to face them head-on. For too long, the criminal gangs who smuggle people through Europe have abused our borders in the name of profit.
Reducing the number of people crossing the Channel from France in small boats is one of the major challenges facing the new Labour government.
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