Saturday, 6 February 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Pair jailed for smuggling immigrants into Portsmouth
A French local councillor and her son have been jailed for helping to smuggle 16 Vietnamese immigrants into the UK. Christiane Chocat, 51, of Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, France, admitted hiding the group in a vehicle which arrived at Portsmouth on a ferry in October...
BBC News (05-Feb-2010)

Three immigration raids in Melton
At The Nail Bar in Sherrard Street two immigration offenders encountered a 27-year-old Malaysian woman who had overstayed her visa and a 26-year-old woman whose nationality is still to be...
Melton Times (05-Feb-2010)

Suspected people traffickers arrested
Six people have been arrested on suspicion of people trafficking by our officers from the North East immigration crime team. Trafficking and facilitation are serious offences which often involve young and vulnerable members from the international...
M2 (05-Feb-2010)

Met's gangbusters seek new recruits
On 6 April last year, officers from the Metropolitan Police raided an address in a quiet residential area of north London. Inside the innocuous looking property they found an Aladdin's cave of printing equipment - printers, embossers, metallic strips, holograms - acquired by an Albanian criminal gang who...
PrintWeek (05-Feb-2010)