https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49183324
This includes recruiting an extra 500 border force officers, in addition to 500 already announced,
while there will also be more money for training customs agents
Former Border Force director-general Tony Smith said the extra money was a "step in the right direction" but more should have been done earlier. "I don't understand why this wasn't implemented three years ago when the government knew we were leaving the European Union," he said.
Bang-on.
BTW, you can divide the number of Officers by 3 or 4 when talking about 24x7 environments across the country (because it is posts, not individual Officers, that counts). And I would've thought that HMRC staffing should also be upped, along with prioritization of processing Dover declarations at the Salford NCH (National Clearance Hub); better, in fact, that the NCH function is delegated back to the regions.
