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The deal will see a 40pc increase in officers patrolling French beaches and UK officers will be embedded with their French counterparts
Britain and France signed a new £63 million agreement on Monday to pay for a 40 per cent increase in the number of officers patrolling French beaches in an attempt to stop more migrant crossings.
The deal – agreed in Paris by Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, and her French counterpart, Gerald Darmanin – will also see UK officers embedded with their French counterparts in northern France, starting in control rooms to share live intelligence and direct the deployment of vessels, drones and police.
The money – an increase on last year’s £54 million funding from the UK – will also pay for more surveillance equipment including drones and night vision goggles.
It is hoped that increasing the number of officers on patrol to more than 300 by the middle of next year will boost the proportion of migrants stopped before they leave French shores.