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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/border-agency-sorry-over-drug-email.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Customs officers at Heathrow Airport were advised not to search potential drug smugglers" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-border-agency-sorry-over-drug-email.jpg" alt="Customs officers at Heathrow Airport were advised not to search potential drug smugglers"/></a></p>
<p>The UK Border Agency has apologised after an email was mistakenly sent to Customs officers at the UK&#8217;s busiest airport advising them not to search potential drug smugglers.</p>
<p>The Sun newspaper reported that the message was sent due to a lack of staff at Heathrow Airport for three days during the Christmas period.</p>
<p>The email issued by the UKBA and seen by the paper reads: &#8220;We would seek your co-operation in managing this situation by asking that you do not actively seek to identify any passenger with internal concealments for three days up to and including Christmas Day.&#8221;</p>
<p>The UKBA has insisted that the email should never have been sent.</p>
<p>A Border Agency source said: &#8220;As soon as the email was sent, phone calls started to try and rectify the situation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Heathrow is one of the world&#8217;s busiest airports and routinely handles around 70 million passengers per year.</p>
<p>The UKBA are now expected to launch a review into the incident.</p>
<p>Jonathan Sedgwick, deputy chief executive of the UK Border Agency, said: &#8220;This email should never have been sent as this approach does not represent UKBA policy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our aim is to prevent and detect the smuggling of drugs however people try to bring it into the country.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;We need to review what has happened here to ensure that this situation does not arise in the future.&#8221;</p>
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