(VOVworld) - President of the Association of Police Chiefs, Hugh Orde, warned that foreign fugitives fleeing justice will flock to Britain if the UK votes to leave the EU.

Sir Hugh Orde, former Head of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Photo: AFP)

 
Speaking at the launch of a campaign to keep Britain in the EU, he said terrorists, rapists, and murderers will try to evade arrest in their homeland and come to the UK.
He said if a criminal somewhere else in Europe was fleeing justice, he would come to the UK because it will take a lot longer to extradite him. Mr. Orde highlighted the benefits of cross-border EU co-operation in tackling crimes such as human trafficking, and said the extradition process would take longer if the UK were outside the EU and an EU-wide arrest warrant no longer applied.