Hide and seek: Tracking international offenders

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Hide and seek: Tracking international offenders

As the European Union struggles to introduce meaningful identity checks at its borders, Gary Mason finds out just how easy it is for criminals and illegal migrants to simply disappear from view.

Date - 23rd December 2014
By - Gary Mason - Police Product Insight

In October 2014, a UK government report revealed that serious violent and sexual offenders from other countries had “disappeared” from the offender management map after serving their sentences in UK prisons. The report from the...

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