Albanian organised crime gangs (OCG) are now dominating the UK’s cocaine supply networks, with small boat arrivals contributing to the gangs’ growing networks, a former police chief has said. Tony Saggers, who headed up the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) Drugs Threat and Intelligence department, said Albanian gangsters have been able to gain considerable control in…

More than 1,000 illegal immigrants arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel in two days, taking the provisional total for the year so far to over 12,500. A total of 384 people were detected on Saturday and 686 on Friday—the new highest daily total this year, according to Home Office figures. It means…

Tory minister Robert Jenrick has faced fierce criticism from his own party’s backbenchers over immigration enforcement. As opposition MPs lined up to denounce the Illegal Migration Bill on Tuesday, Conservative politicians also grilled the immigration minister on when government agencies were going to “get a grip” on rising illegal immigrant cases. Jenrick was in the…

A leading human rights lawyer has told the government how she is increasingly representing Albanian children trafficked into the UK for crime purposes. Danny Bayraktarova told the Home Affairs Select Committee that Albanian teenagers make up a large proportion of her caseload with many being criminally exploited by “highly organised” international people-smuggling gangs. The solicitor…

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The National Crime Agency (NCA) has arrested three alleged members of an Albanian organised crime group that has facilitated illegal entry of numerous immigrants into the UK. The suspected group ringleaders, a 34-year-old man from Grays, Essex, and a 34-year-old man from Dagenham, London, were arrested on Monday. The illegal entry of immigrants was allegedly…

More than 10,000 migrants have been detected arriving in the UK on small boats this year—with 1,100 in the past three days. The jump in arrivals is still 1,000 fewer than those recorded at the same time in 2022. According to Home Office data charting the daily journeys, some 486 people made the dangerous journey…

More than 10,000 illegal immigrants have been detected arriving in the UK on small boats this year—with 1,100 in the past three days. The jump in arrivals is still 1,000 fewer than those recorded at the same time in 2022. According to Home Office data charting the daily journeys, some 486 people made the dangerous…

The home secretary was asked about the levels of organised prostitution in her constituency as she faced questions over the fate of trafficked women under her small boats bill. During Wednesday’s Home Affairs Committee, Dame Diana Johnson said an adult website currently listed 300 sex worker adverts in Suella Braverman’s Hampshire constituency. Half of those,…

Peers say they have been “abused, bullied and intimidated” by the government over legislation to stop the small boats crisis. In what was yet another marathon and rocky session through the House of Lords, the Illegal Migration Bill was torn apart line-by-line into the early hours of Tuesday with some members saying they were “shaking…