Britain will double the £75 million ($97 million) it has earmarked to tackle criminal people smuggling gangs, Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells the Interpol general assembly in Glasgow. The announcement comes as his new Labour government grapples with its pre-election pledge to 'smash' criminals behind human trafficking.
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00:00People smuggling needs a global response, and on a scale way beyond where we are now.
00:09We need to unlock the power of that cooperation across borders, agencies, continents even.
00:18So we're giving our new Border Security Command an additional £75 million of new
00:24funding on top of the £75 million we've already committed.
00:31This will support a new organised immigration crime intelligence unit, hundreds of new investigators
00:38and intelligence officers, backed by state-of-the-art technology.