Home Office Redacts 100 Sections From Report Stating Border Force Faces Corruption Crisis

The independent immigration watchdog said Border Force is facing a Metropolitan Police style fall-out unless insider threats are addressed by the Home Office.

Border Force check the passports of passengers arriving at Gatwick Airport near London on May 28, 2014. Oli Scarff/Getty Images

The Home Office has been fiercely criticised by an independent immigration watchdog over the redaction of over 100 pieces of information from a report on the risks of corrupt Border Force staff.

David Neal, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration (ICIBI), said the “extensive” removal of material from his insider threat report (pdf) fails to meet the “high reasons of national security threshold.”