Border Control Agencies are the front-line in the protection of the national border and to apply the rules and regulations relating to the entry and exit from that state. Increases in global travel and in some regions free movement of labour has had to be accommodated along with the need to secure the borders against increased asylum, serious organized criminality and terrorism.
It has necessitated a need to leverage available resources where they are most effective, by using a combination of new processes and technology to implement an intelligence led border approach to enable the balance of facilitating the vast majority of legitimate travelers through the border control system with use of proactive risk assessment via advance passenger data, automated border gates and bilateral registered traveler programmes.
While this usually takes place at the physical point of entry, it is increasingly being extended and, in effect, projecting the “border” to points of embarkation to pre-empt and disrupt illegal activities.
