Plan to stop stowaways
22nd October 1998, Page 6
22nd October 1998
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• RHA director-general Steven Norris is to meet Home Office Minister Mike O'Brien to tell him to stop treating drivers who find illegal immigrants in their trailers as criminals.
Norris will urge O'Brien to install infra-red heat-seeking equipment at Dover in a bid to help Customs officers catch immigrants attempting to enter
the UK by truck. "The immigrants and the gangs in Belgium and Holland organising this look upon the UK as a soft touch," he says.
"We must show them that they will have terrible trouble getting in at Dover and put them off trying. We must find a solution and not just say it is the fault of the drivers."