The UK plans to hire 1000 new customs and immigration staff to ensure the security of its border after Brexit. The workers will be funded from an additional €395-million (about R6.55-billion) pledged to the Home Office, Philip Rutnam, the top civil servant in the department, told MPs on parliament's home affairs committee this week. They would supplement the 300 new workers recruited in the fiscal year about to end, he said. "We are launching a national advertising campaign for another thousand Border Force staff in order to improve the quality of our border and prepare specifically for Brexit," Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the same panel. "They will be placed across the country. We need to make sure that every area is made secure." The Home Office has had to reverse plans to trim the UK Border Force following the 2016 vote to leave the EU. Brexit has imposed a huge strain on the department, which, in addition to controlling the borders, is devising programmes to register EU natio...
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