Monday, 23 August 2010

EU arrest warrants

mplify’d from www.telegraph.co.uk

Surge in Britons exported for trial

In total 1,032 people – almost three a day – were detained and extradited by
British police on the orders of European prosecutors in the 12 months to
April, up from 683 in 2008-09. The Home Office expects a further 70 per cent
rise, to 1,700 cases, next year.

The number of European Arrest Warrant detentions in Britain has risen 43-fold
since 2004, when there were only 24 across the year. Many of those detained
are accused of relatively minor crimes such as possessing cannabis or
leaving petrol stations without paying.

Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/92um

The whole scale lack of scrutiny by your MP's is another example of labour not being competent with the Law and Order aspect of government.

Did so few of those sent to represent the interest of the constituent ask if it was not a crime here, how can it be a crime abroad?
Whatever happened to the unification of law across the EU? Whatever happened to the primacy of British Law?

It affects us all.

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