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This inspection examined the availability and quality of the training, equipment, and guidance provided to Border Force officers in relation to the identification, handling, and storage of firearms.
The Chief Inspector's report examined the efficiency, effectiveness and consistency of the Reporting and Offender Management (ROM) system.
This inspection examined the Home Office’s identification and handling of migrants first encountered away from a port of entry, having entered the UK concealed in a commercial vehicle, and those migrants seeking to cross the…
The report makes seven recommendations, the Home Office accepted five in full and partially accepted one. The Home Office has already completed three of the recommendations.
This inspection follows a 2022 ICIBI report on initial processing at Dover and a commission from the Home Secretary to assess operations at Manston
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has commenced a spot check inspection of Border Force operations at Portsmouth International Port. This is the first of a new type of inspection that is being pilote…
In December 2022, lead officials from the Northern Ireland Executive Office (TEO) and the Department of Health for Northern Ireland (DoHNI) wrote to the Home Office asking for an independent safeguarding review of hotels use…
The Plan includes completed reports that are with the Home Secretary awaiting publication and inspections that were started in 2022-23 and will report over the next few months.
Annual report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI)
Potential reviewers of country of origin information are invited to submit expressions of interest by the close of 20 December 2023.
This thematic report covers reviews of country information on statelessness considered by the IAGCI at its February 2023 meeting.
This inspection identified shortcomings in the Rule 35 process, a vital safeguard for vulnerable detainees
This inspection initially sought to examine the efficiency and effectiveness of Rule 32 in Short-Term Holding Facilities and Rule 35 in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) between 1 April and 30 June 2022.
The Independent Chief Inspector invites anyone with knowledge and experience of the Home Office’s use of hotels and barracks as contingency asylum accommodation to submit evidence.
The closing date for expressions of interest has been extended to Monday, 3 July 2023.
This re-inspection reviewed the improvements the Home Office had made to the management and operation of Napier Barracks following the ICIBI/HMIP inspection of February 2021.
This re-inspection of the use of hotels for housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking (UAS) children had a particular focus on the implementation of the recommendations from the previous 2022 ICIBI inspection.
The Chief Inspector's report on the Home Office’s preparations for the launch of the EU Settlement Scheme.
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) report on the intelligence management system (IMS), October 2014.
Deadline extended to Tuesday 26 September. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration invites anyone with knowledge and experience of the interaction between the UK immigration system and the social care sect…
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