UK Immigration Authority orders 56 VSC4C

As part of a continuing programme to reduce illegal immigration into Britain, the Home Office, the government department responsible for immigration control, has placed an order with Foster & Freeman for 56 VSC4Cs, the company’s compact document examination workstation.

For use at UK airports and seaports as well as several special centres of investigation located around the country, the instruments will assist immigration officers in identifying altered and counterfeit travel documents. Some will also be used in Paris and Coquelles (near Calais), embarkation points for trains travelling to the UK via the Channel Tunnel.

One of the reasons the VSC4C was chosen by the Immigration authority was because of the instrument’s ease of operation, all functions being controlled through an array of push-button controls on the front panel of the instrument, which avoids the need for adding a PC.

This is one of the largest orders for the VSC4C received by the company and the UK Immigration authority have agreed to accept deliveries at the rate of 5 instruments per week, beginning in January 2002, to allow the company to maintain its schedule of deliveries to other customers.

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