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Ostend blames faulty port scanners and UK's unpaid bill for rise in illegals.
(From Lloyds List)
Byline: Justin Stares in Brussels
A SHARP increase in illegal immigrants entering the UK via Ostend port in Belgium has been put down to a faulty 'heartbeat' detector.
The GBP40,000 ($74,600) machine, which examines trailers for signs of life, needs an upgrade but manufacturers are refusing to touch it unless the UK government pays the bill from two years ago.
As a result, the detector only works up to a point and on occasion fails to detect up to eight people hiding in the same trailer.
'The UK Home Office said they would pay the bill but they haven't,' said Ostend harbourmaster Ronald Kreps. 'The company which made the software will not upgrade it until the bill is settled.'
The hole in the port's security is compounded by the fact that the detector shelter is unmanned overnight and at the weekend due to staff shortages. The port has two such shelters and the other one, which is both manned around the clock and upgraded with the latest software, hardly lets any illegal immigrants through.
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