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- An investigation into border security checks - GOV. UK
This investigation examined the level of border security checks operated at ports of entry to the UK with a particular focus on the Home Office Warnings Index (WI), Secure ID and the
- 6 September 2022: Digital Services at the Border (DSAB) accounting . . .
DSAB replaces the Warnings Index (WI) and splits Semaphore into Semaphore (Core) and Advanced Passenger Messaging (APM) to facilitate improvements to business operations, plus replaces legacy
- Securing borders: Home Secretarys oral statement on . . . - GOV. UK
Border Force officers confirm the identity of passengers arriving at the UK border; check passengers against a watchlist known as the Warnings Index; and undertake a visual inspection of
- What is WICU check? - Immigrationboards. com
The warnings index tracks individuals with immigration offences and others considered 'of interest' (national security concerns, presumably)
- UK terrorist detection system crashes twice a week | WIRED
Auditors found the warnings index, a key but creaking component of the UK's border security system, regularly suffered "high-priority incidents", forcing security staff to rely on incomplete
- Accounting Officer Assessment: Digital Services at the Border (DSAB . . .
new system will not be reliant upon the Warning Index (WI) as a DSAB had its last independent IPA assurance review in May 2022 This confirmed, via its ‘Amber’ delivery confidence assessment, that successful delivery is feasible, albeit not without issues to be resolved to secure final delivery
- The work of the Immigration Directorates: Calais - Home Affairs
The main database Border Force staff use to check passengers against is the Home Office Warnings Index The National Audit Office has pointed out that the Warnings Index went live in the early 1990s and was designed to have a seven year life span It is now unstable and at risk of collapsing
- Digital Services at the Border - NAO press release
The legacy systems are: Warnings Index, a 26 year old system which holds lists of individuals of interest, known as a watchlist, which passengers at the border can be checked against; and Semaphore, a 16 year old system which receives and analyses advance passenger data provided by companies transporting people across the border
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