Police arrested 173,0000 foreign criminals last year – one in - TopicsExpress

Police arrested 173,0000 foreign criminals last year – one in every seven suspects who were apprehended nationwide. The figures from Association of Chief Police Officers Criminal Records Office reveal the extraordinary strain being placed on the justice system by overseas criminals. In many cases, the suspects have lengthy criminal records back home which should have prevented them from entering the UK – or would allow for them to be deported. But, alarmingly, police are only bothering to carry out checks in only 30 per cent of cases and in some force areas it is as low as six per cent. It means offenders who should have been detained are being bailed or, when they appear before the British courts, are not being sentenced properly because judges do not know about their criminal past.