laughter selina seth.ish channel from northern france will be an enduring challenge, senior police officers have told mps. they said the number of people making the journey spiked at the end of last year and would rise again as the weather improves. they said people were motivated to make the crossing because of the very low risk of being returned to their country of origin. typically, in the past, if people had been using what we call general maritime, so boats of various descriptions to make the journey from northern france, they'd been doing so in a clandestine fashion, so they'd be looking to avoid being detected before, during and after arrival in the uk. so that typically would mean there would be shore parties greeting them on arrival, and they would be moving their way through the uk to their intended destination. what we see in the matters we're talking about today is markedly different, because the business model is essentially for the migrants to reach the point where they can engage with uk aut