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UK BORDER AGENCY: Home Affairs Select Committee: Report on the work of the UK Border Agency and the government response

01 May 2011

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UK BORDER AGENCY: Home Affairs Select Committee: The Committee's original report: The work of the UK Border Agency (pdf) noted that "we are are not at all convinced that the UK Border Agency is being effective in making sure that its contractors provide adequate training and supervision of their employees in respect of the use of force."

The work of the UK Border Agency: Government Response (pdf): "The training has a heavy emphasis on using interpersonal skills to persuade detainees to comply with what is required of them, and only to use restraint as a matter of last resort. It also emphasises the requirement to de-escalate any use of restraint as soon as it is safe to do so when the objective has been achieved or the detainee complies."

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