Manchester Reporting Centre
Dallas Court in Salford, Greater Manchester is one of 14 reporting centres in Britain where asylum seekers, foreign criminals and those caught working illegally come to make weekly reports. This is to show the Home Office they are following the instructions given to them while their paperwork and legal status is processed. A man arrives thinking he’s making his routine weekly report, but he is about to be arrested and sent back to Nigeria. He’s a convicted sex offender who has served his sentence, but one of the conditions was that he is eventually deported to his homeland. What he doesn’t realise is that this will happen today. He is later taken to a detention centre at Heathrow and put on a plane to Lagos with 5 burly minders escorting him all the way. In 2007 over 4200 foreign national criminals were deported in this manner.

Heathrow
IO Neil Newbury picks up a student returning from a trip to Pakistan for a hair transplant. Trouble is he can’t give any precise details about his college. He tells Neil about his daily journey from his home in Hounslow to his college at London Bridge. He says he gets a direct train. No such journey exists. He’s eventually refused.

Enforcement – Raid in Manchester Restaurants
The Manchester Enforcement team believes there are illegal workers working at a number of restaurants in Rochdale. There first visit they don’t find any, but they do accidentally smash an expensive glass table. The next raid is more successful as they find 2 illegal immigrants and they are subsequently removed, to Pakistan.

Enforcement – Raid on Birmingham Sweet Centre
An enforcement team in the Midlands has intelligence that a “sweet centre” which is a bit like a cake shop is employing illegal workers. They find 4 illegal workers, and they also find one very unlucky customer who is also an illegal immigrant. One of the workers has his family here and on release, on immigration bail, he is asked to report to his local reporting centre. Unusually, he does make his weekly reports.