European Arrest Warrants

(asked on 30th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many European arrest warrant requests have been rejected since July 2014.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 13th November 2014


Between 21 July 2014 and 31 October 2014, 48 Arrest Warrants have been issued on behalf of police forces in England. This breaks down as follows:

Arrest Warrants issued to other Member States, by Force Area

Total

Avon & Somerset

2

Bedfordshire

1

Cambridgeshire

0

Cheshire

1

Cleveland

0

Cumbria

0

Derbyshire

0

Devon & Cornwall

2

Dorset

1

Durham

1

Essex Police

0

Gloucestershire

0

Greater Manchester

0

Hampshire

2

Hertfordshire

1

Humberside

0

Kent

1

Lancashire

2

Leicestershire

1

Lincolnshire

0

London - Metropolitan

10

City of London Police

0

Merseyside

9

Norfolk

0

North Yorkshire

3

Northamptonshire

0

Northumbria

1

Nottinghamshire

1

South Yorkshire

0

Staffordshire

2

Suffolk

0

Surrey

0

Sussex

2

Thames Valley

1

Warwickshire

0

West Mercia

0

West Midlands

2

West Yorkshire

2

Wiltshire

0

Total

48

These figures have been provided by the National Crime Agency and are not validated. It will be subject to further verification and end-of-year
validation and so may change.

Between 21 July 2014 and 31 October 2014, the National Crime Agency has refused to certify 59 Arrest Warrants. Of those, 21 Arrest Warrants have been refused on the basis that the person’s extradition would be disproportionate. This includes for non-payment of child maintenance and using forged banks note to the value of around 31 pounds to pay for goods in a shop. A further 38 Arrest Warrants because have been refused on the basis that they would obviously be refused by the courts for a failure to establish dual criminality.

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