Post by acnedriver on Apr 25, 2023 5:25:50 GMT
Sixty fast food delivery riders have been arrested across London in a week-long Home Office crack down on alleged immigration offences.
Moped riders from Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats were arrested between April 16 and 21 when policing and Home Office authorities targeted moped driver hotspots across the capital.
Offences included the possession of false documentation and working illegally in the UK, the Home Office said on Monday.
Cash and weapons suspected of being linked to criminal activity were also seized.
Of those arrested, 44 were detained by the Home Office pending their deportation from the UK, while 16 are being released on immigration bail.
“It is also expected that a number of the arrests will result in voluntary departure from the UK,” the Home Office said.
The Home Office claimed there has been an increase in immigration offences by gig economy workers in London.
It said immigration officers carried out “extensive inelligence-gathering” ahead of the operation to identify “hotspots for illegal moped delivery drivers”.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: “Illegal working damages our communities, cheats honest workers out of employment and defrauds the public purse. As the Prime Minister has set out, we are committed to going further and faster to prevent the abuse of our laws and borders.
“The British public deserve a labour market that is fair and honest and must have confidence that goods and services they buy are from legitimate businesses.”
But the App Drivers and Couriers Union told the Standard that it is “not the role of the police to make immigration checks on the streets in this way”.
“Delivery workers are already very vulnerable and at risk of exposure to modern slavery,” general secretary James Farrar said.
“These workers are also subject to abuse and assault on a regular basis. By conducting these type of non standard police checks in this way, the police are destroying the trust of workers.
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WHO HAS GIVEN HIM THE RIGHT TO DICTATE WHAT THE POLICE SHOULD DO. ?
Moped riders from Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats were arrested between April 16 and 21 when policing and Home Office authorities targeted moped driver hotspots across the capital.
Offences included the possession of false documentation and working illegally in the UK, the Home Office said on Monday.
Cash and weapons suspected of being linked to criminal activity were also seized.
Of those arrested, 44 were detained by the Home Office pending their deportation from the UK, while 16 are being released on immigration bail.
“It is also expected that a number of the arrests will result in voluntary departure from the UK,” the Home Office said.
The Home Office claimed there has been an increase in immigration offences by gig economy workers in London.
It said immigration officers carried out “extensive inelligence-gathering” ahead of the operation to identify “hotspots for illegal moped delivery drivers”.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: “Illegal working damages our communities, cheats honest workers out of employment and defrauds the public purse. As the Prime Minister has set out, we are committed to going further and faster to prevent the abuse of our laws and borders.
“The British public deserve a labour market that is fair and honest and must have confidence that goods and services they buy are from legitimate businesses.”
But the App Drivers and Couriers Union told the Standard that it is “not the role of the police to make immigration checks on the streets in this way”.
“Delivery workers are already very vulnerable and at risk of exposure to modern slavery,” general secretary James Farrar said.
“These workers are also subject to abuse and assault on a regular basis. By conducting these type of non standard police checks in this way, the police are destroying the trust of workers.
COMMENT: Mr FARRER HAS DECIDED WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE POLICE
WHO HAS GIVEN HIM THE RIGHT TO DICTATE WHAT THE POLICE SHOULD DO. ?