12/03/2010
E-borders Snares Criminal At Gatwick
A convicted foreign drug smuggler has been stopped from entering the UK after the Border Agency's hi-tech e-borders monitoring system flagged his impending arrival on a Gatwick bound flight.
The UK Border Agency refused entry to the 40-year-old Lithuanian national on arrival from Vilnius because he was deported in April 2002 having been convicted in 1998 of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the UK.
The e-Borders system electronically checks passenger data before they set foot on a plane. It matches passengers against watchlists at the e-Borders centre control room.
Details are then sent to UK Border Agency officers.
Nick Crouch, UK Border Agency Assistant Director at Gatwick Airport, said: "The fact that UK Border Agency officers were able to identify and target a convicted drug smuggler before he landed at Gatwick airport clearly demonstrates the value of e-borders.
"It means we can count people in and out of the UK and capture known criminals, terror suspects and illegal migrants while gathering evidence against smugglers and people traffickers.
"e-Borders has already had a huge impact, helping us catch more than 5,400 criminals including rapists and murderers."
(PR)
The UK Border Agency refused entry to the 40-year-old Lithuanian national on arrival from Vilnius because he was deported in April 2002 having been convicted in 1998 of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the UK.
The e-Borders system electronically checks passenger data before they set foot on a plane. It matches passengers against watchlists at the e-Borders centre control room.
Details are then sent to UK Border Agency officers.
Nick Crouch, UK Border Agency Assistant Director at Gatwick Airport, said: "The fact that UK Border Agency officers were able to identify and target a convicted drug smuggler before he landed at Gatwick airport clearly demonstrates the value of e-borders.
"It means we can count people in and out of the UK and capture known criminals, terror suspects and illegal migrants while gathering evidence against smugglers and people traffickers.
"e-Borders has already had a huge impact, helping us catch more than 5,400 criminals including rapists and murderers."
(PR)
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