Securing Borders for the Olympic Games

The UK Border Agency has much to prove, as the biggest international public event to be hosted by London in many years approaches

The UK Border Agency, recently beleaguered with problems and criticisms over failures of immigration control, was split in two at the beginning of March, only months before the London 2012 Olympics. Margaret Gilmore explores how the Games present the newly separated UK Border Force with the most sophisticated and complex challenge to date.