I Don't Believe It.

[gulliver1]

British troops are being trained to check passports as fears grow over striking border force staff.
But if the soldiers want to directly detain any criminals they will have to call the striking Border force to arrest them. ?????

[Bobbisox1]

Hope it’s not in the next two weeks Gulliver ;0(

[retrocop]

It's a dilemma isn't it gully. Unlike you the military are also trained to think on their feet. If they detain a criminal they detain them and hand them over to the police who also patrol ports and airports. It's called a citizen's arrest. Use to be under the Criminal Law Act but I am sure PP will soon dive in and lecture us on current procedures.

[DTCwordfan]

Oops, there goes Gully, conscripted into the Armed Forces....or to HMP

[gulliver1]

Reckon they ought to enlist Answer Banks very own Key Stone Cop. Trained up to SAS standard, 100% fit and ferocious. He will sort the crims out , he will attack them with his Stick and zimmer .

[gulliver1]

A spokesperson says people suspected of crimes ,drug smuggling, people trafficking etc, cannot be stopped by members of the armed forces as long as they hold the correct travel documents. So why bother using troops then ..just open the gates.

[retrocop]

//I Don't Believe It.//

I doubt if any one else will on AB either if you don't provide a link. :-)

[gulliver1]

This lot seems to me like A smugglers dream , they will be just walking through Custom control and the Squaddies won't give a hoot .
.......Why should they.....

[gulliver1]

The military are quite clear. All this is a waste of military time and public finances, paying soldiers to do civil service jobs .The country would be better of just giving border control a decent living wage.

[barry1010]

Less disruptive than the French air controller and border control strikes that seem to have become a predictable recurrence

[bazwillrun]

As usual, why do you care, youre not even ling here or so you claim...

[gulliver1]

16.09 "youre not even ling here " WHAT !

[bazwillrun]

a typo and you prove how dumb you are....you know exactly what was meant...go away

[douglas9401]

Now now, were supposed to be adults.

Although...

[gulliver1]

Oh dear,..have I upset someone ... not like me. sorry.

[vulcan42]

gulliver, not a waste of money, the countries military get paid the same irrespective of what they are doing.

[retrocop]

//The military are quite clear. All this is a waste of military time and public finances, paying soldiers to do civil service jobs .//

You may be too young to remember but during the winter of discontent under a Labour regime we had the military emptying dustbins. We have had the military manning Green Goddesses and Ambulances during the Ambulance strike. Talk about a short memory gulliver.

[gulliver1]

The last time the military was used for Border control The public said they had never passed through control points so quickly . That figures.

[DTCwordfan]

efficiently too and with good humour, far better than the miserable, overpaid Doom-Death faced Border forces that currently are employed. Salaries for Border Force are typically £24,883 and £41,193 per year plus shift and unsocial hours allowances. Whingers that they are proving to be.

[bazwillrun]

OP is kakking his pants as hes worried if he ever tries to get back in here (he claims to live abroad) he'll stopped and have his collar felt...

[gulliver1]

Oh dear!