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ohhh come on, Channel Four. do keep up:
Daily Mail, December 2014:
Travelling gangs of foreign criminals are exploiting budget airlines
and visa free travel to commit 'burglary blitzes' in Britain and Europe
👉 Crooks from Eastern Europe are being flown in for short-term crime sprees
👉 They are then shipped out of the country before police can track them
👉 Domestic gangs are helping to plan the crimes and launder the profits
Travelling criminals are exploiting cheap flights and visa-free travel to launch 'burglary blitzes' in foreign countries including the UK, says Europe's top policeman.
Organised criminals are flying in crooks from Eastern Europe for short-term crime sprees, then shipping them out before they can be tracked by police, said the chief of Europol.
The growth of such gangs is now raising questions about the ability of British police to cope with international organised crime.
One in seven people arrested last year in England and Wales was a foreign national.
Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, the European crime agency, told i: 'In the past, 95 per cent of housebreakers were committed within half-a-mile.
'Now you're having Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian gangs and others from across Europe jumping on airlines, knocking off [homes and businesses], and almost getting out of the country the next day.
'We have some criminal groups we've identified in Europe that are operating literally in every European country over a one or two-year programme.'
Last year it was revealed that police from Eastern Europe were being drafted in by their British counterparts in a crackdown on the growing number of foreign criminals.
For the first time officers from Poland, Lithuania and Romania were working alongside British colleagues and targeting known convicts from their home countries.
But since then the tactics used by international gangs have only got more sophisticated. The i cited senior police who said foreign crooks were increasingly working with domestic criminals to plan crimes and launder the profits.
And those criminals who are caught before they are able to flee the country are increasingly being allowed to stay, according to a report earlier this month that found hundreds are escaping deportation.
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