Scotland Yard To Draft In Overseas Policemen.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9856877/Scotland-Yard-to-draft-in-overseas-policemen-to-fight-foreign-crime-wave.html

Well most of us realised that Britain had a problem with it's foreign criminals, but does it need Scotland Yard to set up a 'Foreign Legion' police Force to tackle the problem?

/// Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, head of specialist crime, said the Met was trying to make the force "match-fit" with London’s ethnic mix. "We are accelerating our ability to deal with crime,” he told the Times ///

/// According to the 2011 Census, almost one in four Londoners were not British nationals. ///

And that's not counting those who never bothered to take part in the census.

[Zeuhl]

Seems very sensible

For example, a lot of pickpocketing on The Tube is now perpetrated by Romanian professional gangs

There are Romanian police officers who will recognise them instantly, know their MO and their associates.

The Met can apply for EU funding to bring a few over and help our Police spot them more quickly and easily

What's the problem?

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect the problem might be the feeling that controlling a country's citizens is a task that ought to be performed by that nation's citizens. Passing such control to another country's citizen's is not a comfortable feeling. Some things should be done 'in house'; even if advice is garnered from wherever it can be found.

[Zeuhl]

True og, but it seems the use of overseas officers will be quite controlled.

From the link above:

/The officers in the unit, comprised as part of Operation Nexus, would not have powers of arrest and would operate mostly in plain-clothes roles, the Times reported.

But they would be able to wear their national uniforms if a situation required and take part raids, suspect interviews and help facilitate sharing of intelligence of forensic data. /

[friedgreentomato]

An excellent idea, folk are always moaning about immigrants and crime - well now something is being done and folks are still not happy!

[anotheoldgit]

friedgreentomato

/// An excellent idea, folk are always moaning about immigrants and crime - well now something is being done and folks are still not happy! ///

And some are always harping that there isn't a particular problem with immigrants and crime, so why the need?

Foreign police should not be imported into this country, when our own police numbers are being cut.

[Zeuhl]

/Foreign police should not be imported into this country, when our own police numbers are being cut/

What a stupid comment

Not much 'importing' going on

/Up to 30 officers/ are being brought in on a temporary basis to help our Police combat their compatriots who have transferred their criminal activities to London

Perhaps some people also think that the next time there is an influx of foreign football supporters for a match, we should refuse any offers of help from their anti-hooligan specialists on the basis we've cut our police numbers

[jake-the-peg]

What a good idea!

EU funding too

Hard to see a downside to this - I may have to revise my original thoughts about the new Met Chief constable!

[anotheoldgit]

jake-the-peg

/// What a good idea! ///

Then why stop at Polish, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Ireland?

I am sure that is a case of over generalisation, so why not others say Chinese, Jamaican, South African, Kenyan, Nigerian, etc, etc?

I am sure that there must be many criminals from these countries in our cities, also?

/// EU funding too ///

***The Metropolitan Police has applied for European Union funding.***

Applied and receiving are two different matters.

/// Hard to see a downside to this - I may have to revise my original thoughts about the new Met Chief constable! ///

Well I am sure that Sir Bernard can now sleep peaceable in his bed at that piece of assurance.

[Zeuhl]

From The Jamaica Gleaner

/He also addressed the issue of the exchange of police personnel between Jamaica and the UK which, he said, came out of a decision to deepen co-operation between local police and the UK's police's Operation Trident project, which focuses on black-on-black crimes there, including those involving Jamaican "Yardie" gangs.

He said that there would be an exchange, as well as posting, secondment and attachment of personnel from both police services, to assist in developing the capabilities of both services in dealing with these crimes./

I expect there are other examples from other countries as there are people out actually doing things - not everybody lives with their head up their @rse

[emmie]

for the most part don't see a problem, if they have first hand knowledge of the problems then why not.

[emmie]

and indeed why aren't the foreign pickpockets, thieves, and worse not deported, if they are caught, go to jail here, what happens afterwards.

[FredPuli43]

Good policing. We have employed police officers and assistants with specialist knowledge of communities, particular types of crime, international crime and so forth for years. I've known detectives who were brought up in particular (and white) areas of London being deployed simply because they knew the area, the patch, so well, and the families, the pubs, 'the community' and its ways.They were trusted more by locals, as one of 'their own', too.

This is no different, in essence, from that, or even the ease with which the Met could summon up bilingual officers whose mother tongue was that of suspects