After being offline for gods know how long for "updating", the UKBA Operations Manual is finally up.Link Here. However, at a first search l can find virtually nothing about Excise Goods. What l did find is a page on Excise Interviews and boy oh boy, it's a complete joke. Here have a read :-
So for all you folks that are bringing in tobacco and cigarettes for your own personal use, the UKBA have decided that because they cannot store tapes correctly NO interviews under Civil Law will be recorded. The tapes and recorders will still be there for Criminal Cases for such as drugs but NONE for anyone stopped and interviewed regarding Excise Goods such as tobacco/cigarettes.
Which translates as because we had treated some of you badly now we will treat all of you the same .... badly!
They must use different tapes for Criminal Cases! Civil Case ones must self-destruct or something.
The one gem in this notice is that it states that the officer should record the interview accurately and in FULL. This means no paraphrasing, no cherry picking .... it means in full .... that means verbatim!
So us cross-border shoppers will carry on looking after ourselves :-
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So for all you folks that are bringing in tobacco and cigarettes for your own personal use, the UKBA have decided that because they cannot store tapes correctly NO interviews under Civil Law will be recorded. The tapes and recorders will still be there for Criminal Cases for such as drugs but NONE for anyone stopped and interviewed regarding Excise Goods such as tobacco/cigarettes.
Which translates as because we had treated some of you badly now we will treat all of you the same .... badly!
They must use different tapes for Criminal Cases! Civil Case ones must self-destruct or something.
The one gem in this notice is that it states that the officer should record the interview accurately and in FULL. This means no paraphrasing, no cherry picking .... it means in full .... that means verbatim!
So us cross-border shoppers will carry on looking after ourselves :-
RECORD ALL UKBA INTERVIEWS.
DO NOT SIGN THEIR NOTEBOOK ... EVER!
