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The teams will integrate with local police forces to improve their borders, training border guards on how to use British drones, deploying biometric technology to track the movement of illegal migrants and cracking down on visa and passport fraud.
The UK will deploy police and border teams to Albania to combat human trafficking gangs, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said in a new effort to crack down on people smuggling gangs upstream.
The Home Secretary has ordered overseas officials in several Western Balkan countries to work out how to strengthen security operations together with their EU counterparts.
This comes at a time when a Frontex agreement to share vital data on people smuggling gangs has been extended to countries including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.
The teams will integrate with local police forces to improve their borders, training border guards on how to use British drones, deploying biometric technology to track the movement of illegal migrants and cracking down on visa and passport fraud.
More than 33,500 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2025 so far, with figures pointing to a record year.
"I have instructed UK law enforcement to consider all options, including deploying operations in the Western Balkans to tackle illegal migration routes. I am committed to doing everything it takes to secure our borders. That is exactly what I am doing," said the British Home Secretary.
The agreement comes after the Home Secretary hosted the Western Balkans Home Ministers' Meeting in London yesterday, where she warned that migration was risking damaging trust in the government and the state itself.
In one of the harshest words yet on migration, the Home Secretary almost admitted that the United Kingdom had lost control of its borders, British media wrote.
One in four migrants in small boats come to the UK via the Western Balkan countries, the government believes, with around 22,000 making the perilous crossing from these areas in 2024.
The UK has already signed a number of agreements with countries, including Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia, as part of its efforts to tackle the small vessel crisis.
Sir Keir Starmer will host leaders from several Western Balkan countries next week to agree more measures to go further in the effort to crack down on criminal gangs that smuggle people through Europe and into the UK. / Pamphlet/
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