It made the find, which took place in January, one of the biggest ever seizures in the UK. In fact, it was more than a quarter of the 4.2 tonnes Border Force Maritime stopped from making it to ...

Britain's Border Force has raised the alarm over a growing method of smuggling cocaine into the UK, with cartels dropping shipments in the sea to be picked up by smaller vessels. The drugs ...

South American drug gangs are dropping cocaine in the sea around the UK to be picked up by smaller boats and brought to shore, Border Force has warned. Tens of millions of pounds worth of drugs ...

An inspection of Border Force’s work to deter and detect clandestine entry at the UK-France border found that resources were stretched and officers’ security operations were “closely ...

But the French radioed the UK Border Force to race out to the vessel, and continued to shadow it towards English waters. They were eventually taken on board the Border Force Typhoon vessel.

Tony Smith, former head of UK Border Force, said a "collaborative effort" was needed to stop human smuggling. Joanne Fenton said their alarm system had not detected the stowaway "Be aware there's ...