No-deal Brexit will threaten UK's security: Official
Bianca Rahimi
Press TV, London
The Scotland Yard assistant commissioner Neil Basu says there can be no contingency plan or replacement for information sharing with Europe. The UK will simply be left to fend for itself. Basu said the UK had just signed up to biometric sharing. The three key measures these shared tools afford are:
· Fast access to intelligence and data through the Schengen Information System II database
· Passenger name records
· The ability to use European arrest warrants
“It would create an immediate risk that people could come to this country who were serious offenders, either wanted or still serial and serious offenders committing crimes in this country, and we would not know about it. It creates that risk.”
A no-deal Brexit would mean the return of Interpol alerts and the UK relying on the 1957 European convention on extradition, under which it could take years to return a suspect instead of the current six weeks with the European arrest warrant. Basu also took the opportunity to take a dig at Boris Johnson.
“Every public figure who’s got a microphone and has got an opportunity to speak should take the opportunity to be bringing society together. The most important thing everybody should be aiming for is a socially cohesive, inclusive society.”
Basu was referring to comments made by Johnson that are deemed racist and divisive and like saying Muslim women who wore the burqa resembled “letterboxes.”
Boris Johnson has vowed to leave the European Union on the October 31, with or without a deal. He says taking no-deal off the table is impossible because it will mean the UK will have to concede to whatever the EU is offering. But people in the UK are worried of the immediate effects. A leaked government document has revealed that a no-deal Brexit could spark food shortages, “consumer panic,” and security threats within a fortnight.
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