This 1996 Home Office (UK) paper by Mike Porter delves into the subject of criminals who may elude detection by consciously operated in different police jurisdictions. While the traveling criminals are not necessarily the type whom I am blogging about this week, this paper explores a relevant aspect of the topic.
"Cross border crime is characterised by an offender crossing a police force boundary to perpetrate a crime or commit an offence which requires the police to cross boundaries to investigate it. The objective of this work, which was undertaken to support the ACPO Working Group on International National and Inter-force Crime,was to measure the extent of such crime and assess the current police response to it in order that good practice be identified and disseminated.
As no national data on the extent of cross border crime existed three large scale surveys were undertaken involving a total of 39 police forces throughout the United Kingdom. Interviews were conducted with police officers in four forces and with convicted ‘travelling’ criminals in five prisons in and around London."
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