Drug traffickers passport blunder (UK)

[DoYouEverWonder]

27 January 2007

The Identity and Passport Service has failed to enforce overseas travel bans imposed by the courts on nearly 150 convicted drug traffickers.

The service is still trying to trace 15 of the 147 traffickers who have left jail and may have gone abroad.

The government said there had been "no risk to public protection" and that most of those handed bans were in jail.

The Home Office said as it went through reform, "many historic" problems would come to light and be rectified.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6304745.stm


So much for increased security.