Why Isn't This Man Arrested For People Smuggling?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2846193/How-break-Britain-Migrants-Calais-offered-menu-prices-people-smugglers-ranging-700-economy-class-6-500-secured-place-lorry.html

It seems strange that media outlets such as channel 4 can gain all this information and meet up with these smugglers, when our own border control officials seem to be completely in the dark.

[lindapalmara]

Hopefully he will br (but don't hold your breath.

[Old_Geezer]

Their budget probably doesn't cover sending out trained staff on spying missions, they are needed at the desk interviewing suspect persons.

[sandyRoe]

There's a mention of an altruistic chap who smuggles refugees into the UK and other countries in his camper van( a latter day Scarlet Pimpernel).
I wonder, what other countries?

[Gromit]

The UK Border Force would have to catch him first.

And in their wisdom, the Coalition Government have Reduced the Border Force by 6,000 since 2010.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// The UK Border Force would have to catch him first. ///

/// And in their wisdom, the Coalition Government have Reduced the Border Force by 6,000 since 2010. ///

It would have only taken two, to go along with the channel 4 team.

[Zeuhl]

/It would have only taken two, to go along with the channel 4 team./

That's a joke - right?

[Peter Pedant]

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// It seems strange that media outlets such as channel 4 can gain all this information and meet up with these smugglers, when our own border control officials seem to be completely in the dark. //

why not adjust that comment to:

It surprises no one that channel 4 can gain all this information and meet up with these smugglers, when our own border control officials seem to be sitting in offices twiddling their useless thumbs achieving diddly squat, from one day to another. ?

[Mamyalynne]

He may well be questioned now he has gone public, he says he doesn't fear prison.

[Zeuhl]

/It seems strange that media outlets such as channel 4 can gain all this information and meet up with these smugglers, when our own border control officials seem to be completely in the dark./

Not really, because .....

[Zeuhl]

^ weird effect of using certain symbols?

Not really because of the simple reason that...

/It seems strange that our officials such as border control can arrest, prosecute and imprison these smugglers, when media outlets such as channel 4 can only meet up with them, talk and gain all this information/