Dangerous role models: Police specialist squads and gang policing between Nigeria, America and the UK
Dangerous role models: Police specialist squads and gang policing between Nigeria, America and the UK
January 13 2021 Comment
defending stop and search, said that some young people were failing to distinguish between the actions of police forces overseas in America and Nigeria and those of police officers here in the UK.
But far from young people being confused, as Cressida Dick implies, they are increasingly aware of just how globally interconnected policing is today, and that
British police technologies and training continue to play a worrying role in its former colonies, such as Nigeria. There is indeed a connective tissue, both historical and contemporary,
InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2020/12/10
The UK Home Office charged 69 Albanian migrants in November this year with illegally entering the country on a boat. Now it has transpired that the boat was intercepted before they reached the UK and so the charges have been dropped.
UK prosecutors have dropped charges against 69 Albanian migrants who were charged with entering the UK illegally in November this year.
The fishing boat they were on, a 101-foot trawler, set sail from Belgium and was intercepted by border forces off the coast of the town of Great Yarmouth in the east of England on November 17. 72 people were on board the vessel and all of them were arrested in a joint operation between the Home Office’s Immigration Enforcement unit, Border Force and the National Crime Agency.