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unusual facts about Immigration Officer



UK Immigration Service

Any Immigration Officer with responsibility for immigration enforcement and prosecutions is additionally governed by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and may also use powers found within the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Identity Cards Act 2006 and Identity Documents Act 2010.


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José Tábata

On March 23, 2009, Tábata's wife, Amalia Tábata Pereira, who is 23 years his senior, was arrested and charged with abduction after allegedly kidnapping a 2-month-old girl in Florida by posing as an immigration officer; the baby was found unharmed in a shopping center later the same day.

UK immigration enforcement

In 1993 an attempt by an immigration officer and police in London to arrest a Jamaican woman, Joy Gardner,went tragically wrong when she suffocated during attempts to restrain her.