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Immigration Enforcement Criminal & Financial Investigation
Criminal and Financial Investigation: An Introduction
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Home Office Immigration Enforcement
Criminal and Financial Investigation (CFI)
Immigration Enforcement (IE) plays a fundamental role in tackling all levels of immigration crime, from
prosecuting individual offenders through to dismantling vast multi-national organised criminal groups. The
primary responsibility for this falls to IE’s Criminal & Financial Investigation, with significant support from IE’s
Compliance & Enforcement (ICE) officers, Immigration Intelligence and IE International.
Immigration Enforcement seeks to reduce the size of the illegal population and the harm that it causes
CFI seeks to disrupt and dismantle the serious and complex organised crime groups (OCG) facilitating
immigration abuse, whilst providing a balance approach to volume crime.
CFI teams are made up of specialist criminal investigators (trained to police standards), seconded police officers
and specialist roles.
The Impact of CFI
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Based within Immigration Enforcement, we seek to disrupt and
dismantle serious and complex organised immigration crime
22 CFI locations across the UK (reducing to 15 large hubs by 2020)
443 Core Investigative FTE 2018/19 ( reduced by 23 from 2017/18)
Includes 36 Seconded Police Officers (reduced from 55 17/18)
48 Financial Investigators accredited under POCA
32 Covert Assets - Nationally deployable and technical surveillance capability
10 FTE Cash Forfeiture and Legal Condemnation Team
40 FTE Training and Skills Unit - all criminal investigation officers undertake specialist PIP College of Policing investigator training, sitting the National Investigators Examination Brexit Uplift of 80 FTE
CFI Performance
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10%: Facilitation by air
62%: Concealed Entry and Exit
6%: Production and distribution
of false documents
19%: Abuse of legitimate means to remain/enter
3%: Modern Slavery
530 investigations are live
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90: volume crime
232: serious and complex
64: financial investigations
144: cash
593 OCG Disruptions - 397 by CFI - 196 by IEI
71: major
138: moderate
386: minor
Key CFI achievements across 2017/18
Over £1m of cash was
forfeited.
537 individuals arrested
for immigration-related crime
216 CFI ( IEI 201) Disruptions against
Organised Immigration Crime groups
£1.8m of assets were
restrained
£1.6m of confiscation
orders
322 convictions made,
totalling over 550 years in
combined sentences
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CFI 2020 Footprint
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Midlands, Scotland, Wales &
South West
08 Cardiff
09 Solihull and East Midlands
10 Glasgow
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South West
01 Basingstoke
02 Eaton House
03 Croydon
04 Heathrow
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South East
05 Becket House
06 Dover
07 Stansted
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North West & North
East
11 Liverpool
12 Manchester (
officer embedded in
PSNI)
13 Sheffield
14 Durham
15 Leeds
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This will not be a surprise to
our teams – we were open
and honest in June 2017
that we would ‘hub’ the
locations in 15 offices and
were working out the best
location for CFI.
CFI have closed
Bristol, Belfast, Hull and
Cumbria. The Durham team
will shortly co-locate with
the NCA and Gatwick is
soon to close and merge
with Croydon. Discussions
are ongoing with Estates
regarding accommodation
in the Midlands area.
CFI’s mandate of focusing its activity on Serious and Complex Organised
Immigration Crime has driven our approach to Transformation.
CFI are now ready to begin Phase 3 of these
changes, to continue to move us closer
towards our vision of ‘hub’ locations, with a
model office and key capabilities contained
at one site. Key to this is the Estates
strategy.
How do CFI tackle the criminality and facilitation behind immigration abuse?
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Intelligence
End-to-end - targeting enablers from gathering information,
enrichment, analysis, development, report production,
dissemination & feedback
Tasking & Referral
Work inflows and outflows, tasking to individuals & teams
for direct action, and onto others for
consideration/decision (referral)
Targeted Operations
Carry out intelligence led threat based enforcement
operations targeting facilitators
Conduct Enforcement
Carry out intelligence led enforcement
operations/campaigns targeting illegal migrants
Criminal Investigation
Disrupting and dismantling organised crime groups, utilising
our financial investigations capability to remove the proceeds
of crime
Effect Sanctions
Take action against those that perpetrate immigration crime and restrict the ability for immigration offenders to access a service or receive a
benefit.
Modern Slavery/Human Trafficking Threat
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An overarching objective for CFI is to protect the most vulnerable and exploited in society in all
investigations.
CFI play a central role in the Modern Slavery Threat Group and a Home Office wide sub group developed with a
Strategic Action Plan in place.
Training is mandatory online for all staff, with specialist for officers within CFI teams and NRM. An overview of all
training is being undertaken and compliance to be sought from CPS Training Lead and College of Policing.
Police Transformation Fund – has provided an analyst to work within a Joint Strategic
Assessment Centre.
IEI undertake upstream disruption with particular regard to key source countries
particularly Vietnam (Sunflower House project, training for law enforcement) and
Nigeria (Joint Border Taskforce).
In Operation Hyrax, CFI were the first law enforcement unit to successfully obtain a
Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order which placed restrictions on those suspected of
MSHT. Many more have followed since this.
I do? – Arranged Marriage
Can anyone here tell me the difference between a forced marriage and an arranged marriage?
Consent.
What is an Arranged Marriage?
• An arranged marriage is NOT the same as a forced marriage. In an arranged marriage, the family takes the lead to find a marriage partner for their son or daughter.
• And both parties are free to choose whether they enter into that marriage. They will often marry before having a long term relationship.
• An arranged marriage has the consent of both parties. And parents respect the wishes of the child. Traditionally, there is little input from their child. The idea is that parents know their children and can use their wisdom to know what will bring their child happiness.
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Forced Marriage
What is a Forced Marriage?
A forced marriage means that one or both spouses don’t or can’t consent. This could be because they are too young, they don’t want to, or they have a learning or physical disability.
A forced marriage also involves pressure, this is used to coerce one or both parties to marry. Pressure can be physical, psychological, financial, sexual or emotional.
Forced marriages happen for a variety of reasons – can you think of any?
• Ensuring care for children who have a learning difficulty or physical disability.
• Protecting ‘family honour’.
• Keeping land, property, and wealth in the family.
• Reacting to social pressure. Neighbours and older relatives can pressure parents to coerce their children into matrimony.
• Reducing levels of poverty or to repay a debt.
• To obtain an immigration related advantage, sham marriages.
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Modern Slavery and links to OIC – Sham Marriage
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What is a sham marriage?
Sham marriages (or marriages of convenience)
and sham civil partnerships – where the marriage
or civil partnership is contracted for immigration
advantage by a couple who are not in a genuine
relationship.
Sham Marriages & Trafficking Evolution
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What could IE do (for you) to support local efforts to combat Modern Slavery?
Ben Thomas
07766725944
Mike Martin
07827310185
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