Critics, however, say doing so would be risky and caution against using a “Dad’s Army” to guard Britain’s frontiers. Under the proposal, teams of volunteers would be used to bolster staffing levels at the Border Force, which manages immigration and customs controls. But he told the Mail on Sunday: “Border security is a skilled job, which takes many years of training. The plans to use volunteer Border Force specials is a further move towards casualisation of the workforce. The Home Office said the Border Force had a good record and that the government was committed to ensuring that it had the necessary resources.

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2017 09:09 UTC