Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announces £150 million to tackle people smuggling gangs, with the funding being used to hire additional investigation officers and invest in surveillance and data analysis technology. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00This £150 million is for the Border Security Command to hire additional investigators,
00:06intelligence officers, international liaison officers, and also invest in the new technology
00:11that we need, including on surveillance, on data analysis, to be able to go after the criminal
00:17gangs who are undermining border security, who are putting lives at risk. And we'll do this
00:21alongside new partnership agreements with other countries, because we have to tackle this as part
00:27of an international law enforcement operation. We need to end asylum hotels that are costing
00:33the taxpayer a fortune and deal with the chaos that we've inherited in the asylum system.
00:38We did inherit in July a soaring backlog because the Conservatives had just
00:45collapsed asylum decision-making. It had dropped by about 75%, even just in the last
00:50few months. That's left us with a soaring backlog we're then having to deal with.
00:54They warned us that we would have to increase substantially the asylum
01:00accommodation through the summer. We've managed to prevent that happening.