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Mahmood Agrees Channel Migrant Intelligence Deal with Belgium
The agreement lets Belgian officers join a northern France intelligence cell and has already helped lead to more than 50 migrant smuggling arrests, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Belgian interior minister Bernard Quintin signed the UK-Belgium Law Enforcement Cooperation Agreement to enhance intelligence sharing and disrupt migrant smuggling gangs.
- Bolstered French police activity around Calais is forcing smuggling routes to shift eastward and westward along the coast, as evidenced by a dinghy recently traversing 280 miles from Cherbourg to Hampshire.
- Belgian officers will now join the UK-France intelligence cell, removing prior judicial approval requirements for intelligence sharing and building on joint enforcement that has already secured more than 50 arrests.
- "This agreement will help UK and Belgian police tighten the net," Mahmood said, noting the pact could also combat wider organized crime including drug and firearms smuggling.
- Belgian interior minister Bernard Quintin emphasized that criminal networks operate across borders, necessitating continuous international cooperation to track and prosecute those exploiting human misery through smuggling.
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With this new agreement signed in London this Wednesday, the police of the two countries will share information "in real time", the two parties welcome.
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Mahmood agrees Channel migrant intelligence deal with Belgium
The agreement could also help to tackle wider organised crime including drugs and firearms smuggling.
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Interior Minister Bernard Quintin (MR) visited London on Wednesday to sign a police cooperation agreement between Belgium and the United Kingdom, a European first since Brexit. ...
·Brussels, Belgium
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