Customs Officers: Manpower
Home Department
Damian Green (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Ashford, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many front-line customs officers work at each port on the UK border.
Phil Woolas (Minister of State (also in the Home Office), Home Office; Oldham East and Saddleworth, Labour)
Through intelligence-led and risk-based interventions by flexible and mobile teams the UK Border Agency aims to maintain a permanent cover of all points of entry into the UK.
Nationally there are approximately 4,500 front line customs officers that are now part of the UK Border Agency.
More detailed information cannot be disclosed as this would provide information of value to those seeking to circumvent the controls, thereby prejudicing the prevention and detection of crime.