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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Powers to seize mobile phones over channel crossings come into force - Caught on Camera

Mobile phones and sim cards will be seized from migrants without needing to arrest them from Monday as part of efforts to tackle Channel crossings and people smugglers.

Officers will begin taking electronic devices from people at Manston processing centre in Kent, with technology on site to download data from them in a bid to gather intelligence on people smugglers.

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