Anthony John Smith

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

is a British

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who served as thee Director General of the

UK Border Force Border Force (BF) is a British law enforcement command within the Home Office, responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail ports in the United Kingdom. The force was part of the now defunct UK Border Agency from it ...

. He was previously Gold Commander for the London 2012 Olympic Programme and Regional Director for London and the South East in the

UK Border Agency The UK Border Agency (UKBA) was the border control agency of the Government of the United Kingdom and part of the Home Office that was superseded by UK Visas and Immigration, Border Force and Immigration Enforcement in April 2013. It was forme ...

. He was also Head of Border Control in the

UK Immigration Service The United Kingdom Immigration Service (previously known as the Aliens Branch and the Immigration Branch) was the operational arm of the Home Office responsible for frontline border control until its disbandment in 2007. It operated at airports, se ...

between 2005 and 2007 and Head of Ports and Border Management in

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between 2000 and 2003. Smith was appointed

Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(CBE) in the

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for services to the safety and security of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Smith retired from public service on 31 March 2013 after over 40 years with the

Home Office The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is the United Kingdom's interior ministry. It is responsible for public safety and policing, border security, immigr ...

. He was succeeded by Sir Charles Montgomery. Upon his retirement from public service Tony Smith became Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd, a global border security company. He is a regular expert commentator on global border management and security practices in the British media and chairs expert panels on border and immigration conferences around the world including the International Summit on Borders in Washington DC with former US CBP Commissioner Rob Bonner and at Secure Document World in London He became International Liaison Director at Borderpol in 2013 but resigned in 2016. Smith is the founder and chairman of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA). Tony Smith was appointed as a member of the Expert Panel to the Parliamentary Commission for Alternative Arrangements for the Irish Border in April 2019. In May 2020, Smith called for a program similar to

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Operation Sovereign Borders Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) is a border protection operation led by the Australian Border Force, aimed at stopping maritime arrivals of asylum seekers to Australia. The operation is the outcome of a 2013 Australian federal election, 2013 f ...

to reduce

illegal immigration to the United Kingdom It is difficult to measure how many people reside in the UK without authorisation, although a Home Office study based on Census 2001 data released in March 2005 estimated a population of between 310,000 and 570,000. The methods used to arrive at ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Tony Civil servants in the UK Border Agency Living people Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 1953 births Civil servants from London