News / As summer approaches, ports and governments prepare for a 'new season' of illegal immigration

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After a three-month winter hiatus, senior French police sources yesterday warned that the number of migrant attempts to cross the Channel to the UK was likely to significantly increase.

And the law enforcement workforce around Calais was described as seriously demoralised.

Gilles Debove, deputy secretary general of SGP Police Unit Force, the labour union that represents French police officers, told the Freight Security and Migrant Conference in London “officials are neutralised” by the sheer number of migrants they have had to deal with, but “more than ...