Police: Cross Border Cooperation
(asked on 8th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what effect the UK's opting out of the Prüm Decision has had on solving crime.
This question was answered on 21st December 2015
The Government opted out of the Prüm decisions in December 2014 because we were not then in a position to implement it and could have been subject to substantial fines from the European Court of Justice for our non-implementation had we stayed in. On 26 November the Government issued Command Paper 9149 which recommended rejoining Prüm and set out a clear timeframe for implementation.