U.K.: £1 billion on borders' security
The British Isles are surrounded by water, but border security is a big issue there as well; government unveils plan of investing £1 billion on a new electronic border security program
The British government is continuing to press its antiterrorism measures, with the latest being an anouncement that the Gordon brown government is to spend more than £1 billion on a new electronic border security program to protect the country against terrorism. Based on the program, all the transportation companies carrying people to the United Kingdom by land, sea, or air have to enlist the detailed information of the passengers and crew to this system. According to British interior affair ministry, the program is still under test but it has managed to check more than twnety-nine million passengers’ profiles and issue 13,000 alerts resulting in 1000 arrests. The arrested individuals were guilty of murder, rape, or other criminal activities.
The program provides the possibility to check the passengers’ profiles thoroughly even before they board the plane, train, or ship. Britain’s first unified border force is also to be set up by the government to support this electronic security program.
