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<p>The Government recognises the corrosive effects of corruption at the border in
both the 2017-2022 Anti-Corruption Strategy and the 2018 Serious and Organised Crime
Strategy. As committed in the Anti-Corruption Strategy, the Home Office is leading
on a comprehensive work programme to understand, manage and mitigate this vulnerability.
Alongside Strategy implementation, law enforcement agencies continue to target the
organised crime groups who use corruption, collusion and coercion to enable criminality
at our airports and ports.</p><p>Border Force itself is working to address the risk,
including raising staff awareness of their vulnerability to attempts by Organised
Crime Gangs to compromise their integrity. Measures are being put in place to encourage
staff to declare such attempts or any potentially compromising developments in their
personal lives, so they can be protected and mitigations put in place. Border Force
is also improving intelligence and information sharing with other agencies, to ensure
corruption risks are identified and that any insider threat is addressed at the earliest
opportunity, working with the NCA to ensure an effective and robust response.</p>
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