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Big_Bird
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 Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: Poland making ridiculous extradition requests |
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Door thief, piglet rustler, pudding snatcher: British courts despair at extradition requests
he number of extradition cases being dealt with in the UK courts has reached record levels, fuelled by a number of "trivial" requests from Europe that have exasperated the police and clogged up the system, the Guardian has learned.
Up to 1,000 extradition cases are expected to have been dealt with by the end of the year, more than double the number last year, and four times the number in 2006 according to figures from the City of Westminster magistrates court, which handles all extradition hearings.
The increase is largely down to the volume of European arrest warrants (EAWs), many of them issued by Poland.
EAWs, requiring the arrest and extradition of suspects from one EU country to another, are being used by Poland for a "large volume of trivial extradition requests", according to Detective Sergeant Gary Flood of Scotland Yard's extradition unit.
He estimated that 40% of all extradition cases dealt with by the Metropolitan police originated in Poland, adding that many of the offences were so minor they would lead to either a caution or no investigation at all in England and Wales.
In one case, according to Flood, a carpenter who fitted wardrobe doors and then removed them when the client refused to pay him, was subject to an extradition request by Poland so that they could try him for theft. In another case, the Polish authorities requested the extradition of a suspect for theft of a dessert. "The European arrest warrant contained a list of the ingredients," Flood said.
Although Poland is not the only culprit - a Lithuanian was extradited last year on a charge of "piglet-rustling" - it has made the most requests by far.
According to Flood the volume of cases from Poland has forced the Metropolitan police to start chartering special planes to return suspects to Poland. "We now arrange for a Polish military flight every three weeks," he said.
The number of requests from Poland and other eastern European countries is due to the absence of a filtering process to weed out cases that are not worth prosecuting. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:28 am Post subject: Re: Poland making ridiculous extradition requests |
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| He estimated that 40% of all extradition cases dealt with by the Metropolitan police originated in Poland, adding that many of the offences were so minor they would lead to either a caution or no investigation at all in England and Wales. |
I don't know specifically about this country pair, but generally an allegation must be a crime in both jurisdictions for it to be covered under most extradition treaties. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:52 am Post subject: Re: Poland making ridiculous extradition requests |
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| bacasper wrote: |
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| He estimated that 40% of all extradition cases dealt with by the Metropolitan police originated in Poland, adding that many of the offences were so minor they would lead to either a caution or no investigation at all in England and Wales. |
I don't know specifically about this country pair, but generally an allegation must be a crime in both jurisdictions for it to be covered under most extradition treaties. |
Well, it sounds like these are acts of theft which would be illegal in the UK as well. Just not the sort of thing that countries would normally bother issuing extraditions over. |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, but is molesting a car wash vacuum hose an extraditable offense? |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| You know, ever since Poland gained admission to the EU, I've been questioning the wisdom of that invitation. (Along with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and perhaps some others.) I think they all needed to percolate in the blessings of Freedom for another generation or two before they could be trusted not to act like petulant adolescents. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| daskalos wrote: |
| You know, ever since Poland gained admission to the EU, I've been questioning the wisdom of that invitation. (Along with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and perhaps some others.) I think they all needed to percolate in the blessings of Freedom for another generation or two before they could be trusted not to act like petulant adolescents. |
They're kind of the Korea of Eastern Europe?
Hmmm... poles living abroad, banking money, and someone got it into their mind to yank them back to pay their fines and get some of that cash into Poland? An almost Korean idea. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| Poland is having many problems because of the EU.. Biggest one is that the population of Poland is decreasing rapidly. Poland went from 42 million to 38 million in the time it has been in the EU. Their having a problem because there is no one left to pay taxes or work localy any more. |
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