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East European criminals lead the march in committing crimes by foreign born immigrants (13 September 2012)

Date: 13/09/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, East European criminals lead the march in committing crimes by foreign born immigrants

Discovery by an investigation has found numbers of foreign nationals being detained by the West Midlands Police for crimes like robbery, burglary and theft have doubled in the period an increase of 53 percent.
It has become more acute to control these crimes as the country’s second biggest force the West Midlands was struggling to cope with the unprecedented cuts of £125million.
Most of the criminals were found to be East European who are thought to be behind the surge in offences committed by migrants last year.
Khalid Mahmood, MP for Perry Barr, said there were lot more undesirables coming in to the country now. They saw rich pickings in Britain because there were no controls.
He added the UK was a lot easy target than the rest of the Europe because of the cutbacks. The border controls were fewer and internal controls were also not in its place.
The figures obtained by a local newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act have shown that 7,716 foreign suspects were arrested by the force between April 2010 and March 2011. But that figure rose to 11,801 between April 2011 and March this year.
Of those arrested, 2,629 were for violence against the person, a rise of more than 600 from the previous 12 months.
Foreign nationals were also detained for almost 400 sexual offences, up from 271, while robbery and burglary arrests more than doubled; up to 486 from 239 and up to 533 from 254 respectively.
Romanians were the most prolific offenders last year, with 1,329 detained. Indians were the second most likely to be arrested, with 1,156 arrests. The numbers of Iraqi and Afghan nationals being questioned by police rose from 516 to 787. Overall, crime in the force area has fallen, with robberies dropping by 20 per cent and burglaries by 17 per cent, but there was a surge in cases involving people from Eastern Europe.
More than 1,000 Poles were arrested last year, compared with 614 the year before. Police also picked up 440 Lithuanians, up from 235, while 322 Latvians were arrested, compared with 193 from the previous 12 months.
These figures were a worrying cause of concern as the force which will have to provide interpreters for many foreign nationals and other associated costs to a force already having to make £125 million savings by 2015, with further planned savings anticipated in the future."
Ian Edwards, chairman of West Midlands Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers said: "Crimes should be detected and arrests made, whoever they may be.
But he added that overall there had been a significant decrease in both burglary and robbery now than at any time in the last 10 years.

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