Border Force strike: cover staff report getting just two days’ training
by Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor from World news | The Guardian on (#68DP9)
Exclusive: Some NCA staff in Calais say they had little official training before being put to work at passport control
Civil servants covering for striking Border Force staff received just two days' training before taking up their posts, the Guardian understands.
During the first set of strikes in December, members of the armed services and staff from Whitehall received between five and seven days of training before being asked to check on crimes such as carrying a false passport, drug smuggling, people trafficking and modern slavery.
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