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APPENDIX 6: STATISTICS ON THE USE OF THE EAW IN THE UK

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All data in the following tables has been provided by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which is designated as one of the Central Authorities for certifying EAWs in the UK. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service is also a Central Authority.

TABLE 2

EAWs to the UK from other EU Member States (Part 1 extradition requests): Requests received, arrests and
surrenders for 2004-2011/12

	2004	2005	Jan- March 2006[505]	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12
Requests received by SOCA	1,865	5,986	2,067	3,515	2,483	3,526	4,100	6,032	5,832
Arrests	46	154	75	430	546	683	1,032	1,359	1,149
Surrenders	24	77	25	178	415	516	699	1173	922

Source: Serious Organised Crime Agency

N.B. All figures are per person rather than per EAW. Multiple EAWs are often issued for the same person therefore the actual number of EAWs issued will be much higher. For example, whilst 1,149 people were arrested on one or more EAWs in 2011/12, CPS case management data shows that this related to over 1,600 individual EAWs, each of which is dealt with separately in extradition proceedings.

Data is shown by calendar year for 2004 and 2005 and for fiscal year thereafter.

On 16 April 2013 the Home Secretary laid a Written Ministerial Statement in the House of Commons[506] which stated that she had been informed by the Chair of the SOCA that they have identified an error in the way in which the Agency has captured and reported the number of outgoing EAWs that have been issued since 2009/10. In order to ensure that any revised figures are completely accurate she had requested an audit of not only the outgoing EAW cases collected since 2009/10 but also that for incoming cases over the same time period. This work is expected to be completed by the middle of May 2013 and the House will be updated with accurate figures in due course. Therefore, the figures quoted for the periods 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12 in this Appendix should be treated as provisional.

TABLE 3

Part 1 extradition requests received, arrests and surrenders by country

	2009/10			2010/11			2011/12
Country	Requests	Arrests	Surrenders	Requests	Arrests	Surrenders	Requests	Arrests	Surrenders
Poland	2,403	630	425	2,011	863	761	1,536	626	514
Germany	235	29	21	788	32	27	748	33	20
Romania	197	28	18	564	55	35	584	47	35
Belgium	90	10	6	302	12	10	363	22	13
Netherlands	112	19	18	322	26	17	345	15	12
France	106	26	19	190	11	10	323	19	12
Spain	167	23	16	268	20	17	323	18	10
Lithuania	183	84	55	204	106	100	242	122	89
Italy	100	17	10	215	12	12	234	9	7
Czech Republic	120	53	34	280	61	51	216	70	65
Hungary	72	13	8	276	35	32	195	28	25
Slovakia	54	16	7	108	22	16	124	24	21
Sweden	11	6	6	55	5	3	98	8	7
Latvia	55	27	15	109	41	35	96	48	41
Austria	30	3	1	65	0	1	86	0	1
Bulgaria	42	1	1	122	4	1	70	4	5
Portugal	23	7	3	31	4	7	62	9	4
Ireland	43	21	19	35	30	21	46	33	30
Greece	22	8	1	27	4	9	43	4	1
Finland	6	1	1	8	4	2	24	1	2
Slovenia	7	0	1	15	1	0	24	1	0
Cyprus	8	1	4	16	3	1	11	1	3
Denmark	3	0	0	4	0	0	11	0	0
Luxembourg	2	1	1	1	0	0	10	1	1
Malta	3	2	2	9	4	2	10	3	4
Estonia	6	6	7	7	4	3	4	2	0
Gibraltar	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0
Total	4,100	1,032	699	6,032	1,359	1,173	5832	1149	922

Source: Serious Organised Crime Agency

  

TABLE 4

Part 1 extradition requests received, arrests and surrenders by offence type, 2011/12

Offence Type	Requests	Arrests	Surrenders
Drugs Trafficking	1,252	122	101
Other	728	225	169
Grievous Bodily Harm	624	86	72
Fraud	501	193	156
Theft	497	228	183
Murder	430	31	21
Immigration & Human Trafficking	420	30	19
Robbery	385	144	121
Armed Robbery	381	39	28
Rape	201	17	18
Kidnapping	170	8	7
Child Sex Offences	124	14	17
Terrorism	37	1	0
Arms Trafficking	34	4	1
Money Laundering	19	2	1
Arson	10	3	5
Counterfeiting	10	1	1
War Crimes	6	0	1
E-Crime	3	1	1
Racism & Xenophobia	0	0	0
Total	5,832	1,149	922

Source: Serious Organised Crime Agency

TABLE 5

EAWs sent by the UK to other Member States (part 3 extradition requests): EAW requests issued and surrenders to the UK 2004-2011/12

	2004	2005	Jan-March 2006[507]	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12
Requests issued	96	131	24	146	182	257	203	256	221
Surrenders	19	63	19	84	107	88	71	134	86

Source: Serious Organised Crime Agency

TABLE 6

Part 3 EAW surrenders to the UK, 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12

Country	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12
Ireland	11	22	17
Netherlands	17	26	17
Spain	20	38	14
France	6	14	7
Poland	5	3	5
Lithuania	0	3	4
Germany	1	4	3
Romania	2	4	3
Belgium	0	2	2
Denmark	0	0	2
Gibraltar	0	1	2
Italy	1	2	2
Bulgaria	0	1	1
Cyprus	2	1	1
Czech Republic	0	3	1
Estonia	0	1	1
Greece	2	0	1
Portugal	2	2	1
Slovakia	0	0	1
Sweden	1	1	1
Austria	0	2	0
Finland	0	1	0
Hungary	0	1	0
Malta	1	2	0
Total	71	134	86

Source: Serious Organised Crime Agency

N.B. These statistics are for surrenders to the UK and not requests made by country as that information is not available to us. In any event, these figures would be misleading because, where the location of a wanted person is unknown, we will send a request to several countries simultaneously.

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507   In 2006 the statistics recording changed from calendar year to financial year so this column covers the first three months before the start of the 2006/07 financial year Back