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Daily Mail
December 10, 2013
Foreign criminals are ending up with shorter jail terms than British offenders because police are failing to carry out adequate background checks, a former intelligence chief has warned.
Michael Askew, an ex-superintendent at Scotland Yard’s intelligence bureau, claimed simple checks that could flag up an offender’s criminal history overseas are being overlooked by police who are too busy.
And he said UK citizens are receiving comparatively longer sentences as a result, because their offending history is always considered in court.
Calling for such checks to be ‘routine’ for foreign offenders, Mr Askew pointed to a number of failings in the way police forces across the UK handle such cases.
His warning follows a spate of high-profile cases in which violent offenders have travelled freely to the UK to commit brutal crimes despite their pas
The alleged failures of police investigations could also increase concerns ahead of the UK’s decision to open its borders to migrants arriving from Romania and Bulgaria in January.
Mr Askew said many forces were also regularly failing to act on European Arrest Warrants, and cited cutbacks as a factor in sub-standard investigations.
He said that one in ten foreign nationals arrested when he worked at Scotland Yard was the subject of such a warrant, but they were not effectively investigated.
