The government is to escalate its hunt for the organised
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gangs which are smuggling asylumseekers into Britain, drawing together investigators from Customs & Excise and other government agencies.
The new strategy will be led by the National Crime Squad and will draw on expertise from the Immigration Service, Customs & Excise, the Foreign Office, MIS and MI6.
A Customs & Excise spokesman says it has submitted a report to ministers outlining how it can help to weed out the criminals who are said to charge as much as £20,000 for an illegal passage to Britain.
• South Lanarkshire schoolgirls have patented a device which is designed to detect body heat or smoke in a trailer and to alert the driver within minutes via his mobile phone.