UK Border Force Careers and Employment

Border Force is a law enforcement command within the Home Office responsible for managing the UK border control by enforcing immigration and customs regulations and working with the wider Home Office on counter terrorism organised crime, modern slavery and trafficking. This is some of the most important and challenging work in Government as it both protects and enhances the UK economy.

Border Force has five operational regions in the UK: North, Central, Heathrow, South and SE & Europe. The regi...Show less

Border Force is a law enforcement command within the Home Office responsible for managing the UK border control by enforcing immigration and customs regulations and working with the wider Home Office on counter terrorism organised crime, modern slavery and trafficking. This is some of the most important and challenging work in Government as it both protects and enhances the UK economy.

Border Force has five operational regions in the UK: North, Central, Heathrow, South and SE & Europe. The regions have responsibility for securing the border 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at the UK's 140 seaports, airports, 200+ general aviation ports, postal depots and international rail network. This includes the Eurostar from Brussels and Paris to St Pancras International and the Eurotunnel from Coquelles to Cheriton, where Border Force has juxtaposed controls.

The regions' varied work includes checking 100 per cent of passengers arriving on scheduled flights, officers also conduct intelligence-led interceptions for controlled drugs, cash, tobacco, alcohol, firearms, offensive weapons, prohibited goods, counterfeit goods and clandestine entrants. We do this at passenger and freight controls, covering passengers travelling on foot, by car, coaches, freight vehicles, as well as air freight and sea containers.

Our postal depots are a unique 'warehouse' type environment where Border Force has specific functions including the raising of duty and VAT on parcels entering the UK and targeting, examining and subsequent seizure of parcels containing prohibited or restricted items entering the UK.

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