More than 54,000 criminals from EU countries have been convicted in the last two years Tuesday April 12,2011 CRIMINALS from other European Union nations are being convicted of more than 500 offences a week in the UK, disturbing police figures showed yesterday. Poles and Romanians were among the worst cases, raising fresh concerns about the wisdom of expanding the EU eastwards. The overwhelming majority of the foreign crooks could not be sent home after serving prison sentences because their deportation has been forbidden under Brussels freedom-of-movement laws. Last night, the revelation of the EU crime wave ignited fresh anger at the collapse of border controls caused by laws from Brussels. Paul Nuttall, a UK Independence Party Euro-MP, said: “A sovereign nation should be able to decide who is allowed to live within its borders and who is not. “If somebody commits a crime here, they should be booted out.” Figures released by the Association of Chief Police Officers following a Freedom of Information request show that more than 54,000 criminals from EU countries have been convicted in the last two years. Paul Nuttall, UKIP MEP Senior police officers complain that the influx of lawbreakers, often with poor or no English, is putting a massive strain on their resources. One said even cautioning a foreign criminal could take six hours. A spokeswoman from ACPO said: “The growing number of new communities has certainly brought greater complexity to the pattern of crime and have contributed to already stretched resources. “We have to adapt all the time to deal with new and emerging problems. However we pride ourselves on our strong relationships with our local communities and the way we deal with the issues that emerge.” The figures were compiled as part of a system between EU police forces where officers must notify their counterparts in another EU member state if one of its citizens is convicted of a crime. ACPO’s statistics show that a total of 26,956 notifications were made during 2010 and 27,379 in 2009 – equivalent to 520 crimes a week. During 2010, 6777 Poles and 4,343 Romanians – by far the largest immigrant communities – were convicted in the UK. In the list was Pole Piotr Zasada, 33, jailed for life last year after he stabbed his ex-girlfriend and threw her out of a second-floor window in Bournemouth. A further 4,176 offenders were from Lithuania and 2,423 from Ireland. Excluding Ireland, the largest numbers of offenders all came from nations that joined the EU between 2004 and 2007. A Home Office spokesman said: “We are committed to removing foreign lawbreakers from the UK. We removed 5,235 foreign national prisoners in 2010.”UK NEWS
FURY AS EU MIGRANTS CARRY OUT 500 CRIMES EVERY WEEK IN BRITAIN
By Macer Hall Political Editor
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A sovereign nation should be able to decide who is allowed to live within its borders and who is not
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