Even closer European cooperation is in the works.
The Lisbon Treaty, which went into effect this December, creates ample room for it, both in the realm of police work and in collaboration between public prosecutors throughout Europe.
Under the new treaty, a qualified majority among the 27 ministers of justice and internal affairs is now sufficient for decisions regarding police matters.
Unanimity is no longer required, which means no single nation can block proposals for greater cooperation"
"" Imagine a complex fraud case, with a criminal organisation that is active in six different countries.
It would then be important to coordinate arrests, search warrants and impounding of property, but also to agree on how to prosecute.".
p.s. "After a few months, several European national police forces decided to pool all their information and send their case files to a heavily secured building in The Hague. There, a list of 250 suspects and 950,000 suspicious phone numbers was compiled. .. A group of analysts working for Europol sifted through the phone numbers and list of suspects and managed to identify the structure of the entire gang. Last spring, 25 main suspects and a number of accomplices were arrested "
And then, of course, they destroyed the records containing the other 925,000 'suspicious phone numbers' .. Yeah right!
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