Europe’s police get power of arrest in Britain.

The BNP along with a handful of other groups and individuals has been warning of the danger of continental police officers operating in this country.

This is no longer a ’scare story’ as some have claimed, for Europol operatives are here - NOW! As ever, it is dressed up to appear a sensible idea. This time it’s to combat international crime. Makes a change to combating international terrorism I suppose.

Europol (contraction of European Police Office) is the European Union’s criminal intelligence agency. It has already been decided that Europol will be converted to a full EU agency on 1 January 2010!!

This short report was tucked away inside the Daily Mail, as it was in several other media outlets.

"Detectives from Europe will be able to carry out investigations and even make arrests on British soil as part of specialist squads designed to combat international crime.

Members of the European police force Europol – which includes Britain and France – can now form Joint Investigation Teams using officers from each national force.

They will include officers from the Metropolitan Police and the Serious Organised Crime Agency and will target criminal gangs. Previously, European police could travel to this country to share intelligence – but could not make arrests. A spokesman for SOCA said: “This is a new step for Britain. It will help us to combat cross-border crime.”

But critics are angry that the decision removes Britain’s veto over any future changes to Europol’s powers. Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “This is the latest shocking failure to stand up for the British national interest in Brussels. “Responsibility for policing and security must remain in the hands of national governments.”

Further background information on Europol, and the system of Law under which it will operate - Corpus Juris - may be found in this short House of Lords article:

Memorandum by Mr Torquil Dick-Erikson
I might say by way of prefacing my remarks and introducing myself, that I am a British citizen, I have been living in Italy for the last 38 years, and have been studying the area of comparative criminal justice and procedure for the last 25 years, having been published in various papers and journals and spoken from various platforms from time to time. My name has been cited in debates in the Houses of Parliament four times, in particular in January 2003 when Nick Hawkins MP read aloud a 6-page briefing paper I had prepared on aspects of Italian criminal procedure, in Standing Committee, debating the European Arrest Warrant. In April 1997 I was invited as a guest of the European Commission to a seminar in Spain where they unveiled the Corpus Juris project for a single system of criminal justice to be enforced throughout the EU; subsequently I contributed written evidence to the HoL Report on Corpus Juris (9th Report, 1998-99, HL Paper 62—pp 117-119).

The evidence I wish to submit to you is as follows—very briefly:

(1) The new Reform treaty will ensure that criminal justice is eventually brought under the decision-making powers of the central authorities of the EU, and JHA will lose its present status as an exclusively national prerogative.

(2) There are two broadly, and profoundly, different families of systems of criminal justice in Europe today—the inquisitorial system, prevalent throughout the continent of Europe, and the adversarial system, which is in use only in the “island jurisdictions” of the UK, Ireland, and Malta.

(3) One problem we have is that little is known about continental systems of criminal justice. It is an area that has hardly ever been studied. There are no university chairs of comparative law that specialise in comparative criminal procedure, anywhere in the British Isles.

(4) The proceedings during the seminar in Spain and an examination of the Corpus Juris proposal, as well as the demands put forward by Commissioner Franco Frattini last year, show clearly that there is a firm determination on the part of the EU’s central bodies to set up a single system of criminal justice for the whole of the EU, based on the Inquisitorial model. A very recent report says that Signor Frattini wishes to start enacting those parts of the Treaty concerning security and justice even before it has been ratified

see http://euobserver.com/9/25117/?rk=1

(5) Corpus Juris effectively erases the legal safeguards of individual freedom which have been at the basis of our system since Magna Carta, viz:

(6) Article 26.1 of Corpus Juris provides that cases shall be heard by professional judges, excluding “simple jurors and lay magistrates”. This is how cases are heard and tried all over the continent (where there are “lay assessors” they retire to the jury-room with one or more professional judges, so the influence of the “judge on the jury” can be very heavy indeed and is exercised in secret). So there is an end to trial by independent jury.

(7) Article 20.3.(g) grants powers—denominated powers of investigation—to the European Public Prosecutor to order the incarceration of a suspect, for a period of up to six months, renewable for three months at a time. This “order” is countersigned by the so-called “judge of freedoms” on the continental Napoleonic model. These two work together in tandem on case after case, and are colleagues and members of the same professional brotherhood—the career judiciary, from which the defending lawyers are excluded. The decisions on pre-trial detention are taken in the privacy of the judge’s office, and there is no obligation on the “judge of freedoms” to examine any evidence that his colleague may, or may not, have collected to show that there be a prima facie case to answer. So there is an end to Habeas Corpus.

(8) Article 27.2 provides quite simply that the Prosecutor may appeal against a verdict of acquittal. So there goes our protection against double jeopardy.

All these changes will irk the common sense of fair dealing and justice to which our fellow-citizens have been accustomed for centuries. They will appear oppressive and unjust. They will however not appear unusual or strange to our new “fellow-citizens” on the continent, for they have never known anything different. There is this deep cultural difference between the two sides of the English Channel, and since they are in the far greater majority, in a union between the two their system will eventually come to be imposed on us, and our system will be effaced.

There is another highly significant difference between our traditions and theirs, and it is in the area of policing.

Ever since the police was first instituted by Sir Robert Peel, nearly 200 years ago, our police have always been:

(a) locally recruited and locally accountable;

(b) regularly unarmed;

(c) non-military in their nature and their organisation, since each single constable is a self-propelling law enforcement officer, whose prime duty is to apply the law; and

(d) the underlying ideal to which our policing policies aspire is “policing by consent”. We set high store on the ordinary members of the public willingly assisting the police by stepping forward and volunteering information.

On the continent, in contrast, the police forces are:

(a) centrally controlled, by central government, and moved around the country so they are, more often than not, not local people in the area where they operate;

(b) always carrying lethal weapons at all times;

(c) military, stationed in barracks, equipped for battle against a hostile populace. Their prime purpose is to maintain public order; and

(d) our notion of “policing by consent” is basically unknown. The police are designed as an instrument whereby the central government imposes its will on a population, parts of which are expected may be hostile. It is closer to what we would see as an army, than a police force.

In line with the Napoleonic tendency to uniformity and centralisation, not only has Europol been set up, but also the less-well-known European Gendarmerie Force, which has been drilling in a base in Vicenza, Italy, since around 2003. These are specialised riot batallions. Even less well known is the fact that on 18 October last the five countries participating in the EGF signed a Treaty in Velsen, Holland, under the auspices of the Portuguese presidency, establishing the EGF itself on an official footing. Under this treaty, they may be deployed in any third state with the agreement of that state (art 6.3)—and presumably this means just the agreement of the government of the day of that state, which will not have had to consult its Parliament far less its people on such a momentous step. Under the Reform treaty, we will see that with JHA passing under the jurisdiction of the ECJ, any supposed opt-out for Britain will not last, so that it will be possible to deploy the EGF by majority decision at the centre, which will over-rule any lack of consent given by the state concerned. We can therefore expect to see them at some stage on the streets of British cities.

Any opt-out will be subject to an opt-in to be decided swiftly and easily by the British Government of the day without recourse to Parliament far less to the people. And once the immunity of an opt-out has been relinquished it may never be recovered, under the well-known ratchet mechanism provided by the doctrine of acquis communautaire.

The announcement of this Treaty of Velsen by the Portuguese Presidency spoke of the possibility of drawing recruits not only from Member States but also from candidate states (art 44), and mentioned with satisfaction that Turkey had shown interest in providing recruits to this nascent force.

I attach a paper I wrote in August on the Eurogendarmerie, with two photographs taken from their own official website: www.eurogendfor.eu

The announcement of the new treaty of Velsen is on this page:

http://www.eu2007.pt/UE/vEN/Noticias_Documentos/20071015MAIEurogendfor2.htm.

These websites, created by organs of the EU itself, supply vivid documentary evidence of the truthfulness of what I have written.

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