{"id":35739,"date":"2024-11-04T22:12:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=35739"},"modified":"2024-11-05T03:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T00:12:54","slug":"british-prime-minister-calls-on-the-world-to-be-vigilant-against-human-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/04\/british-prime-minister-calls-on-the-world-to-be-vigilant-against-human-smugglers\/","title":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Calls on the World to Be Vigilant Against Human Smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said at an international law enforcement conference on Monday that human trafficking gangs sending migrants across the English Channel in small boats pose a threat to global security, and they must be dealt with like terrorist networks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Starmer told the meeting of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) that &#8220;the world needs to wake up to the seriousness of this challenge.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He continued that &#8220;human trafficking should be seen as a global security threat equivalent to terrorism,&#8221; according to the Associated Press.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Starmer, who previously served as Attorney General for England and Wales, said that his government will &#8220;apply our successful counter-terrorism approach to tackling the gangs.&#8221; He pointed out that this means more cooperation between law enforcement agencies, closer coordination with other countries, and &#8220;enhanced&#8221; unspecified powers for law enforcement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Starmer said that in counter-terrorism operations, &#8220;we can freeze their bank accounts, cut off their internet access, and arrest them for planning their actions before an attack occurs.&#8221; He added, &#8220;We also need to stop human trafficking gangs before they act.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said at an international law enforcement conference on Monday that human trafficking gangs sending migrants across the English Channel in small boats pose a threat to global security, and they must be dealt with like terrorist networks. Starmer told the meeting of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) that &#8220;the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35740,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions\/35740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}