辯論： 英國護照-採訪或審訊？
星期二， 2008年4月22日
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家庭辦公室能辯解提高護照費用對結束£70，當幾乎花費£100百萬在有零的作用在與交戰的身分欺騙或恐怖主義的採訪中心上時？
被判罪的恐怖分子獲得了和使用的欺騙護照例如 AlQaida繪圖員， Dhiren Barot，計劃一系列的英國攻擊介入對「骯髒的炸彈的用途。
護照採訪是否是必要的不便在反恐怖戰爭中-或他們是否是「在一個增長的監視社會收集個人數據的審訊中心」 ？
下面是二個報告從辯論的反對的邊。
您在哪裡站立？
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從報告 BBC
成千上萬磅在瞄準的計劃被浪費與護照欺騙交戰，保守性說。 黨表示它的關心作為從90,000個申請人當中指定必修面談，什么都未被轉動下來學會的BBC。
採訪為所有新的護照申請人在2007年4月在欺騙被介紹了作為鎮壓一部分。
身分和護照服務認為採訪系統被阻止的人民從提出偽造申請。
Fraudsters申請
家庭辦公室估計10,000本護照根據欺騙信息去年被發布了，被給首次申請人的一半他們。
從那以後身分和護照服務執行了幾乎與首次成人申請人在它新， multi-million磅網絡的90,000次採訪中心。
中心花費£50m設定和£30m每跑的年。
到目前為止，但沒人被拒绝了護照由於他們的採訪，集中於信息例如早先地址和銀行細節， BBC早餐學會了。
£72護照費的£12.50去往支付這些採訪。
陰影移民部長Damian綠色說採訪過程和它的充電是浪費金錢。
「每個被硬化的犯罪，組織的幫會和國際恐怖分子不去得到他們的假英國的護照的這條路線，他們做着[它]其他方式。
「護照的費用的重大大塊在這些採訪現在去，到目前為止證明完全地無用的」。
`威懾作用』
但Bernard Herdan，身分和護照服務(IPS)，說缺乏拒绝不是失敗的標誌。
「我滿意這是一個非常成功的節目」，他說。
herdan先生繼續了： “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.