From: IpswichStar [UK]
How vulnerable is Suffolk’s coastline to smugglers and terrorists?
Andrew Hirst
The view from Orford Quay where people smugglers have been known to operate
Concerns raised that Suffolk’s coastline is a “smuggler’s paradise”.
Cuts to border patrols and policing are feared to have left the region’s isolated coastline vulnerable to criminals smuggling drugs, weapons and people into the country, an investigation can today reveal.
Suffolk fishermen and the volunteers keeping watch on the county’s coastline say the authorities responsible for protecting our borders are now spread so thinly they are no longer effective.
