Extracts from Committee stage (Lords) of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill - Jan 16
Thursday, 16 January 2020 07:34
Lord Paddick (LD):...Various EU measures and mechanisms that are
currently available to us as an EU member state are valuable to UK
law enforcement. At a briefing given to the APPG on policing in
2017, the National Crime Agency lead on Brexit outlined what these
were, what the alternatives might be and the impact on the UK’s
safety and security were they no longer available. They were the
Schengen Information System II, sharing information about terrorist
suspects, those wanted under the...Request free trial
(LD):...Various EU measures and
mechanisms that are currently available to us as an EU member state
are valuable to UK law enforcement. At a briefing given to the APPG
on policing in 2017, the National Crime Agency lead on Brexit
outlined what these were, what the alternatives might be and the
impact on the UK’s safety and security were they no longer
available. They were the Schengen Information System II, sharing
information about terrorist suspects, those wanted under the
European arrest warrant, stolen vehicles and similar information;
the European arrest warrant, allowing rapid extradition without
political involvement; Europol, pan-European strategy development
to counter serious and organised crime; ECRIS, sharing information
about criminal convictions handed down by any court in the EU;
Prüm, rapid electronic comparison of DNA, fingerprints and vehicle
registrations held on the databases of each EU state; cross-border
surveillance, allowing surveillance of UK suspects in the EU and
vice versa; and joint investigation teams under Eurojust,
prosecuting pan-European crime...
...It is all very well for the Minister to keep putting matters off
by saying, “This is going to be negotiated and I can’t say what the
details of the negotiations will be.” Time is running out. That
excuse will not be available in less than 12 months’ time and we
are concerned that our law enforcement agencies will be handicapped
as a consequence of losing some, if not all, of these EU
mechanisms, as the National Crime Agency lead for Brexit told
us in a briefing a few years ago...
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