The Government has announced new laws aimed at tackling people smugglers. Suspects could be subject to travel bans, social media blackouts and limits to accessing their finances under the measures announced by the Home Office. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra said the new powers will be "invaluable" and enable law enforcement agencies to act "much more quickly".
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00:00The new measures that we're announcing today are about stopping criminal gangs
00:04and potential people smugglers earlier with new powers to be able to restrict
00:09their access to travel, to finances, to phones, particularly where there is a
00:13high threshold of evidence and serious immigration or other crime may be about
00:18to occur. The new interim serious crime prevention orders are a new tool and go
00:25further than existing powers. They will enable law enforcement agencies to act
00:30much more quickly to stop serious organized immigration crime and do so by
00:36making sure that we can prevent those who are undertaking such crime from for
00:43example destroying evidence or changing their tactics. These are going to be an
00:48invaluable tool in tackling these criminal gangs that are undermining our
00:52border security and putting lives at risk. They are going to be extremely
00:57important as part of that toolkit for law enforcement agencies but also as
01:02part of the measures we must take to strengthen our borders and save lives.