Immigration spy centre hit by staff delays - The Register

Immigration spy centre hit by staff delays

By Chris Williams • Get more from this authorMatch analysts sans frontières

Posted in Government, 10th December 2009 12:14 GMT

The opening of the operations centre at the heart of a new £1.2bn computer system - planned to monitor every person who enters or leaves of the UK - has been delayed by staff training.

The National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC), the Manchester clearing house for the e-Borders programme, was scheduled to open this month. According to the Home Office, it will now begin operations sometime in the first three months of next year..............

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