2 Immigration Enforcement Directorate
6. The Immigration Enforcement Directorate is responsible
for:
- investigating immigration offences,
- detaining and removing individuals
with no right to be in the UK, and
- preventing abuse of the immigration
system.[4]
Dave Wood, the new interim Director General of the
Immigration Enforcement Directorate, told us that there had been
"significant changes" in the way his staff operated
since the beginning of April, which would tackle what the Home
Secretary described as a "closed, secretive and defensive
culture":[5]
there is a whole new leadership regime across the
top of Immigration Enforcement. There are three completely new
directorates being formed, so there are a lot of people doing
the same thing but in a very different way [...]. That is all
part of a culture change.[6]
[...]
culture takes time to change, so this will not be
done overnight but, yes, I am convinced over time we can change
culture, we can make things far better, we can make the enforcement
operation far more efficient, and that is what I am trying to
lead and drive forward.[7]
7. The Immigration Enforcement Directorate is divided
into the following sub-directorates:
- Removals and Logistics (350
staff);
- Detention Estate (250 staff);
- Enforcement teams (1,450 staff);
- Criminal casework (785 staff);
- Special Cases (70 staff);
- Regional crime teams (488 staff);
- Removals casework and interventions
unit (483 staff);
- National Operations Command
(104 staff); and
- Intelligence Directorate (700
staff).[8]
8. Along with the new internal structures comes a
new corporate identity, which Mr Wood explained would establish
" a more law-enforcement culture."[9]
He acknowledged that it would be necessary to strike a balance
between, on the one hand, showing respect for clients' dignity
and, on the other, indicating a tough, law-enforcement culture.[10]
9. The new Directorate's budget for 2013-14 will
be as follows:[11]
| Director of Operations
| Budget £m
|
| Director of Operations |
0.5 |
| Crime Team | 28.5
|
| Central Command & Delivery Team
| 4.5 |
| Operational Intelligence
| 26.2 |
| ICE South | 34.8
|
| ICE North | 23.3
|
| ICE Scotland & NI |
3.9 |
| Director of Compliance and Returns
| |
| Director of Compliance and Returns
| 0.2 |
| Criminal Casework | 31.2
|
| Special Cases | 6.2[12]
|
| Removals Casework | 23.6
|
| Returns | 254.4
|
| Interventions & Sanctions
| -0.9[13]
|
| Change Projects | 1.6
|
| Total
| 438 |
Immigration Enforcement Directorate Organogram
Immigration Removal Centres
| Immigration Removal Centre
| Location | Contractor
| Capacity |
| Brook House | Gatwick Airport
| G4S Group | 426 male detainees.
|
| Campsfield House | Kidlington, Oxon
| MITIE care & custody
| 216 male detainees. |
| Colnbrook | Harmondsworth, Mdx
| Serco | 383 males & female detainees
|
| Dover | Dover, Kent
| HM Prisons | 314 males over the age of 18.
|
| Dungavel House | Strathraven, S Lanarkshire
| GEO Group | 217 capacity
|
| Harmondsworth | Harmondsworth, Mdx
| GEO Group | 615 single males
|
| Haslar | Gosport, Hampshire
| HM Prisons | 160 males
|
| Larne House | Larne, Antrim
| Reliance | 19 male & females
|
| Morton Hall | Swinderby, Lincolnshire
| HM Prisons | 392 males
|
| Pennine House | Manchester Airport
| Reliance | 32 males & females
|
| Tinsley House | Gatwick Airport
| G4S Group | 119 males & 8 females
|
| Yarl's Wood | Clapham, Bedfordshire
| Serco | 284 single female & 121 family beds
|
10. It is too early to evaluate
the operational impact of the abolition of the UK Border Agency.
David Wood, the interim Director General of the Immigration Enforcement
Directorate told us, establishing a new corporate culture and
identity will play a significant part in improving the Home Office's
immigration and enforcement activities.
- We are concerned that the activities
formerly carried out by the UK Border Agency continue to be carried
out under the defunct UKBA banner, both online and at the border.
This could cause confusion and could lead the general public to
come to the conclusion that nothing has really changed. We recommend
that the Home Office immediately removes UKBA branding, since
the agency no longer exists.
4 http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/organisation/ Back
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Ev 42 Back
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Special Cases is being transferred to Office for Security and
Counter Terrorism Back
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Includes civil penalties income Back
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