{"id":37522,"date":"2014-01-06T13:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=099606cfd7827f7317d650a6ffbfb751"},"modified":"2014-01-06T13:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:53:18","slug":"news-story-new-director-general-of-immigration-enforcement-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37522","title":{"rendered":"News story: New Director General of Immigration Enforcement announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mandie Campbell has been announced as the new Director General of Immigration Enforcement, bringing a wealth of experience from her work keeping the UK\u2019s borders secure.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"new-director-general\">New Director General<\/h4>\n<p>She will replace interim Director General David Wood, who has been in the role since April 2013, at the start of next month (February 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Immigration Enforcement is one of the three operational immigration commands within the Home Office that were established to replace the UK Border Agency.  With a distinct law enforcement ethos, its role is to target those who break our immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent Secretary Mark Sedwill said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am delighted to confirm Mandie\u2019s appointment. Her work at the border, especially during the Olympics, makes her the outstanding candidate for this role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I would also like to thank David Wood for his excellent work developing this new command during a period of transition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"immigration-enforcement\">Immigration Enforcement<\/h3>\n<p>Ms Campbell became the Chief Operating Officer of Border Force in May 2012 and was formerly the Home Office\u2019s Director of Drugs, Alcohol and Community Safety. <\/p>\n<p>She has held a variety of leadership roles including responsibility for intelligence development and systems, major business change programmes and legislative reform.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration Enforcement Director General Mandie Campbell said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape our enforcement response and I am excited by the challenges which lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I look forward to working with fellow colleagues to maintain the UK\u2019s tough approach against those who seek to abuse or profit from our immigration system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border Force\u2019s Chief Operating Officer to take over as head of Immigration Enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}