The UK Border Force’s official endorsement of the Borderpol Conference is an active step towards enhancing inter-agency co-operation with international forces and improving the strength of border protection and security, from refugee and migration movement to illegal activities (such as people and narcotics trafficking).
The UK Border Force is that part of the Home Office, of course, which is responsible for protection of the United Kingdom’s borders.
Since 1 March 2012, the Border Force has been a separate operational command, with its own ethos of law enforcement and led by its own director general. The organisation is accountable directly to ministers as part of the Home Office.
Borderpol’s primary mission is to promote international borders that enhance human mobility while ensuring traveller safety and security. It also exists to facilitate smart and secure border systems by working with the border security establishments of like-minded nations on ensuring that international borders protect as well as connect people and places.
Co-operation, consultation and communication
The Borderpol Conference and Exhibition in London forms a key element of the organisation’s mission and mandate which is “to promote co-operation, consultation and communication among national border administrations and associated services and agencies”.
The conference will focus considerable attention on border management in a world that’s experiencing a global financial crisis and its impact on the movement of both people and goods.
The UK Border Force will now contribute towards the conference programme, which encompasses many high level speakers (including an opening address delivered by Damian Green MP, the UK’s immigration minister.
Jason Kenney – the Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism – will also deliver a keynote speech at the opening of the conference.
Other confirmed speakers include many active senior representatives from international border agencies and agencies at the borders, among them:
For further information and the full conference programme visit the Borderpol website
Further information on Borderpol
The World Border Organisation is “a 21st Century body dedicated to improving border security and standardising international procedures and processes”.
Recognizing the need for the establishment of a global home to over 1,000 border-related services, Borderpol was officially registered in March 2003 as a not-for-profit international association in Canada with its General Secretariat located in Ottawa.
In concert with the EU Secretariat in Budapest opened in 2005 and the Asia Secretariat established in India in 2011, as stated Borderpol facilitates co-operation and consultations among like-minded border services and related agencies.
Borderpol is governed by its Constitution and senior representatives from national border policing services provide policy oversight to the organisation’s Executive through the Borderpol Exploratory Committee (BEXCOM).
