EL DISCUSIÓN: ¿Pasaportes BRITÁNICOS - entrevista o interrogación?
Martes 22 de abril de 2008
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¿Puede el Ministerio del Interior justificar el levantar de costes del pasaporte a £70 excesivo mientras que pasa casi £100 millón en los centros de la entrevista que tienen efecto cero en fraude o terrorismo de la identidad que combate?
Los terroristas condenados han obtenido y los pasaportes fraudulentos usados por ejemplo trazador del al-Qaida, Dhiren Barot, que planeó una serie de ataques BRITÁNICOS que implicaron el uso de una “bomba sucia.
¿Son las entrevistas del pasaporte justas una inconveniencia necesaria en la guerra en terror - o son “interrogación se centran” que recogen datos personales en una sociedad creciente de la vigilancia?
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Divulgue de BBC
Millones de libras se están perdiendo en un esquema dirigido combatiendo fraude del pasaporte, los conservadores han dicho. El partido expresó su preocupación mientras que el BBC aprendió que de 90.000 aspirantes dados entrevistas cara a cara obligatorias, no se había dado vuelta ningunos abajo.
Las entrevistas para todos los nuevos aspirantes del pasaporte fueron introducidas en abril de 2007 como parte de una medida enérgica en fraude.
La identidad y el servicio del pasaporte dijeron a gente disuadida sistema de la entrevista de hacer usos falsos.
Fraudsters se aplica
El Ministerio del Interior estimaba 10.000 pasaportes había sido publicado en base de la información fraudulenta el año pasado, mitad de ellos que eran dados a los aspirantes nuevos.
Desde entonces la identidad y el servicio del pasaporte ha realizado casi 90.000 entrevistas con los aspirantes nuevos en su nuevo, red del adulto de la libra del multi-million de centros.
Los centros costaron £50m al sistema para arriba y a £30m al año al funcionamiento.
Pero hasta ahora han rechazado nadie un pasaporte debido a su entrevista, que se centra en la información tal como direcciones y detalles anteriores del banco, desayuno de BBC ha aprendido.
£12.50 del honorario del pasaporte £72 va alrededor hacia pagar estas entrevistas.
El ministro Damian de la inmigración de la sombra verde dijo que el proceso de la entrevista y sus cargas eran una pérdida de dinero.
“Cada cuadrilla criminal, organizada endurecida y terrorista internacional no van esta ruta para conseguir sus pasaportes británicos falsos, ellos harán [él] otras maneras.
“Un pedazo significativo del coste de un pasaporte ahora va en estas entrevistas, que están demostrando hasta ahora ser totalmente inútiles.”
Efecto disuasivo del `'
Pero Bernard Herdan, de la identidad y del servicio del pasaporte (IPS), dijo que la carencia de denegaciones no era una muestra de la falta.
“Estoy satisfecho esto soy un programa muy acertado,” él dijo.
Sr. Herdan continuó: “Interviews and tough fraud prevention systems are designed to deter identity fraud and pick out fraudulent passport applications before interview. To claim interviews are not working misses the point.”
He said the fact of being asked to attend an interview deterred many potentially fraudulent applicants.
The IPS estimated there had been about 10,000 successful fraudulent passport applications last year and was “committed to reducing this number”, he added.
From 2010/11, citizens will be able to decide whether they want an identity card or a passport.
Both will contain fingerprint identification data.
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Report from Kable’s Government Computing
The Home Office has confirmed that compulsory interviews for first time passport applicants have not led to a single rejected application
The face to face interviews, introduced in June 2007 as a precursor to the interviews intended for all applicants for identity cards, cost £50m to set up with an annual budget of £30m. They add around £12.50 to the £72 price of a passport.
Bernard Herden, executive director of the Identity and Passport Service, said the interviews were part of its work to deter and detect fraud. “This in particular is a deterrent factor,” he told BBC1’s Breakfast programme on 21 April 2008.
“People will have faded away and not come to us, because we’ve asked them things that show that we are on to them,” he added. “By the time we come to the interview, we wouldn’t expect many cases to be fraudulent.”
He added that the interviews will be better assessed in 12 months’ time, when a statistical analysis of their abilities as a deterrent will be available, and that 350 cases had been referred to its fraud unit of which some are ongoing.
The Home Office said that no passport applications had been refused from the 87,765 interviews held up to the end of March.
Conservative shadow immigration minister Damian Green told the BBC: “A significant chunk of the cost of a passport is now going on these interviews, which so far are proving to be completely useless.”
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3 Responses to “THE DEBATE: UK Passports - Interview or Interrogation?”
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Roy
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am | Link to this
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Lady Lita
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm | Link to this
ReplyWell we already know this isn’t going to help. All that will happen is we will be forced to pay more, have more hassle getting one and give out our biometrics to store on a government database. Once they are on that database there will be no way to get them off it. So sitting back and saying wait and see is too little too late. The damage will already be done.
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steve k
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008 at 8:02 am | Link to this
ReplyThe part of the article that caught my attention was ” People will be offered the choice of whether they want a passport or an identity card ” . While i agree that safety may be an issue this smackes too me of one way of bringing in identity cards through the back door ! .
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I think the conclusion is a little of both. The government has to appear to be doing something about the terrorist threat and I suppose these methods have to be tried before they will know if it works.
If these centers are still in operation in 5 years without results then our safety is clearly not the agenda.