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Originally Posted by Hugh

It says it won’t discuss what methods are used, not what methods are used - it is supposition in your part to assume this includes technology to find small boats.

Planes with radar, hi-tech cameras and sensors to be used to spot Channel migrants

Home Office hires second aircraft equipped with radar, hi-tech cameras and sensors to join mini-airforce that includes drones

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...hannel-spring/

The Home Office has revealed plans to put in place a near-£15m deal to increase the use of automated tech and artificial intelligence systems in its surveillance of small-boat Channel crossings.

The proposed contract – details of which have emerged just as the leaders of the UK and France announce a new joint plan for tackling small boats – forms part of government’s wider “intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) package”, according to a newly published commercial notice.

The document sets out specifications for technology deployed on land in the UK. These systems should allow government’s Channel Operations team to “reliably and autonomously detect, track, and identify small boats at range, fusing this with data generated by existing platforms, and presenting it to end users”. The new tech systems will cover movements in the UK’s territorial waters around “the Dover Strait from Ramsgate to Hastings”, which encompasses a range a range of 12 nautical miles from the Kent coast.

https://www.publictechnology.net/202...-surveillance/