Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has praised a “groundbreaking” agreement that will see Germany tighten its laws to make it easier to prosecute people smugglers enabling small boat crossings to Britain.
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00:00This joint action plan is so important. This is groundbreaking work in order to allow us to share intelligence, to better share information, to be able to strengthen our actions, strengthen law enforcement and powers to be able to go after the criminal gangs and their supply chains and their illicit finance as well.
00:22So I'm hugely grateful to the work across between our governments and between our law enforcement. Already the closer working between our countries has led to an immensely important operation last week in Germany and in France but supported by the UK National Crime Agency that went after the criminal gangs, made a series of arrests and included identifying boats and engines as well that would have been destined for the Channel 8.
00:51As part of that operation it is evidence of the impact that joint working can do but we want to go very much further.