Offenders: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 15th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many background checks on foreign offenders were requested by police, broken down by police force, in the most recent year for which information is available .


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 18th July 2019

The Home Office does not hold the specific information requested.


The ACRO Criminal Records Office (ACRO) carry out overseas criminal records checks on behalf of police forces. ACRO record the number of requests to and from both EU and non-EU countries.

These figures are published at:


https://www.acro.police.uk/acro_std.aspx?id=226

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