{"id":143430,"date":"2018-06-19T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/uk-cant-stay-in-arrest-warrant-scheme-after-brexit\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T17:34:57","slug":"uk-cant-stay-in-arrest-warrant-scheme-after-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/uk-cant-stay-in-arrest-warrant-scheme-after-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8216;can&#8217;t stay in arrest warrant scheme after Brexit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armed police officer in central Paris\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/76C1\/production\/_102110403_mediaitem102110402.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  EPA<figcaption>Image caption                                      Use of the European Arrest Warrant has increased steadily in the past decade                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The UK will be kicked out of the European Arrest Warrant deal after Brexit, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said.<\/p>\n<p>The warrant allows EU members to request the arrest and detention of criminals in other countries without extradition talks between them.<\/p>\n<p>The UK wants to stay part of the system when it leaves the EU next March.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Barnier said the UK could not, because of its desire to leave the EU&#039;s court and free movement scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The EU would consider setting up a &quot;streamlined&quot; extradition process with the UK instead, said Mr Barnier.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Davis hits out at EU over Galileo<\/li>\n<li>Europol head fears loss of UK influence after Brexit<\/li>\n<li>Brexit: All you need to know<\/li>\n<li>UK reveals proposed EU security deal <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His words are not likely to go down well with the UK&#039;s Brexit Secretary David Davis, who earlier this month singled the European Arrest Warrant out as one of the cornerstones of post-Brexit security co-operation with the EU.<\/p>\n<p>He said it had &quot;brought dangerous people swiftly to justice&quot; and &quot;played a crucial role in supporting police co-operation, not least in Northern Ireland and Ireland&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Michel Barnier: &#039;We will not be drawn into this blame game&#039;                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Barnier said &quot;facts have consequences&quot; and the UK&#039;s decision to leave the EU and its single market meant things could not stay the way they were now.<\/p>\n<p>He said the UK&#039;s decision to opt out of free movement rules and largely end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice &quot;means that the UK cannot take part in the European Arrest Warrant&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  EPA<figcaption>Image caption                                      The UK wants an agreement with Europol that preserves existing benefits                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He suggested it would not be &quot;fair&quot; for the UK to keep all the benefits of EU membership. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;They want to maintain all the benefits of the current relationship, while leaving the EU regulatory, supervision, and application framework,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;And they try to blame us for the consequences of their choice. Once again, we will not be drawn into this blame game. It would mean wasting time we don&#039;t have.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Barnier said that aside from the European Court of Justice the arrest warrant was also underpinned by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and by the concept of EU citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &quot;Today we know that the UK is not ready to accept the free movement of people, the jurisdiction of the court and the Charter of Fundamental Rights - for the charter, this was confirmed last week by the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This means that the UK cannot take part in the European Arrest Warrant.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The EU&#039;s remaining 27 countries would continue to share information from passenger name records and the UK would not have automatic access to EU-only police databases or those of countries in the Schengen zone, he said in a speech in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, while the UK would be shown analysis done by Europol relating to live criminal investigations, it would not be able to &quot;shape the direction&quot; of the EU&#039;s law enforcement agency or other EU bodies.<\/p>\n<h2>&#039;Operational consequences&#039;<\/h2>\n<p>Shared efforts to counter money-laundering and terrorist finance must continue, Mr Barnier said, but judicial co-operation in criminal matters could not extend to continued membership of the European Arrest Warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Successive UK governments have remained strong supporters of the European Arrest Warrant - which came into force in 2004 - despite calls from some Tory MPs for it to be renegotiated or reformed. <\/p>\n<p>According to the National Crime Agency, other EU members requested the arrest of 14,279 UK-based suspects in 2015-6, up from 1,865 in 2004. The UK made 241 such requests in 2015-6, leading to 150 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the same event as Mr Barnier, leading MEP Guy Verhofstadt said &quot;solutions were possible&quot; to ensure public safety was not compromised by Brexit but he made clear the status quo was not an option.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They cannot be simply based on continuing the same processes as before,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p>In response, the Department for Exiting the European Union said protecting the public was an &quot;absolute priority&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Any drop in the breadth and quality of co-operation would have a direct impact on public safety and on our collective ability to deliver justice across Europe,&quot; a spokesman said. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland said non-participation in the scheme was &quot;probably the biggest practical vulnerability&quot; facing law enforcement in Northern Ireland post-Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>George Hamilton told a House of Lords committee there would be &quot;very real operational consequences if there are no alternative arrangements in place around exchange of material and people by way of a European arrest warrant&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright EPAImage caption Use of the European Arrest Warrant has increased steadily in the past decade The UK will be kicked out of the European Arrest Warrant deal after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}