Organised Crime

Organised crime is understood as ‘any serious crime with a cross-border dimension committed at or along, or which is related to, the external borders’.

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Human smuggler indicted on US charges and arrested as part of Brazilian takedown of significant alien smugglers

Extensive coordination and cooperation efforts between United States and Brazilian law enforcement authorities culminated in the Brazil Federal Police (DPF) conducting a significant enforcement operation to disrupt and dismantle a transnational alien smuggling organization, including the arrest on Brazilian charges of an alleged alien smuggler who has also been indicted in the United States. The alien smugglers targeted in this operation are alleged to be responsible for the illicit smuggling of scores of individuals from South Asia and elsewhere, into Brazil, and ultimately to the United States.

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Police continue to hunt the traffickers responsible for the 39 people who died tragically whilst being smuggled into the UK – What is the real lesson?

As a response to the migrant camps in Calais, the UK government spent considerable amounts of money on improving security at the Channel ports, with investment in things like specialist fencing, sniffer dogs as well as technology, such as human presence detection systems (sometimes known as heart-beat detectors). #trafficking #bordersecurity

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