WATCH: Extraordinary moment French police say they are ordered to do nothing to stop migrant boat launches

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WATCH: Extraordinary moment French police say they are ordered to do nothing to stop migrant boat launches.

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French police officers have admitted they have orders to do nothing when migrants attempt to cross the English Channel and break into Britain.

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Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp was speaking to Gendarmes on a beach, just a few feet from where an illegal launch was taking place.The UK pays France half a billion pounds a year to fund additional police, surveillance technology and enforcement measures aimed at disrupting people-smuggling gangs and reducing small boat crossings.Just today, more than 300 illegal immigrants have already reached UK waters and 400 more are in French waters waiting to cross TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Standing with the officers, Mr Philp asked: "Why have you allowed the migrants into the water?

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Why haven't you stopped them?"One officer shrugged his shoulders and said: "Our order is to let them go.""We just have to say to them ‘Don't do that; it's dangerous.'" Astonished, the Shadow Home Secretary asked: "Your orders are not to intervene?""We...

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