Border Force officers enforce immigration and customs procedures at UK entry points such as ports and airports. Border officers are critical in ensuring that all people are safe and secure from any dangers to the country. The border force keeps streets and houses secure from illegal substances and weapons.

• Your work can involve carrying out intelligence-led searches on passengers and freight, conducting interviews with passengers and alerting security services to people of interest.
• You could work in a single network or in multiple sites around an area.
• This position requires expertise of public safety and security.
• Also, patience and the ability to remain cool under pressure.
• Ability to absorb criticism and work effectively under duress.
• Ability to think intelligently through logic and reasoning.
• The capacity to work effectively in a group.

As a Border Force officer, you will be required to: check passports and travel documents of all passengers arriving by sea, air, rail for immigration control purposes as well as detect and intercept prohibited goods; Inquire with passengers about their motivations for visiting the UK and their plans while there.