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Association of Chief Police Officers –Written evidenceanother rape but not on an EAW as they did not know that he was in the UK. Asa result of this, an urgent EAW was generated. The previous conviction for murder(due to the MO) was instrumental in convicting brother one of the gang rape.Brother two was acquitted but immediately arrested on the EAW. He was swiftlyextradited to Lithuania (within a matter of weeks) and has since been convictedand sentenced, thus removing a dangerous offender from the UK. Although it wasthe EAW that removed him, it was another TPM that allowed the identification totake place in the first instance.UKBA deport EU nationals with serious offending history:Since April 2010 the UK Central Authority for the Exchange of Criminal Records(UKCA-ECR) has been sharing serious foreign conviction information with UKBAof EU nationals subject to criminal proceedings in the UK for minor offences. TheUKBA are deporting EU nationals who are identified as posing the highest risk tothe UK and putting in place measures to refuse them re-entry.4.7 Joint Investigation Teams (JIT)4.7.1 JITs are covered by Council Decision 2002/465/JHA. Historically these have notbeen extensively used by UK policing. The reason for this seems to be nothing morethan a lack of knowledge around their use. This is changing though as more and morepolice units discover the benefits of them.4.7.2 JITs are legal agreements between two or more states whereby a cross border crimeis investigated. They are designed to speed up the investigation and reducebureaucracy and they are very successful at doing this.4.7.3 What the JIT does is set up an agreement between the states whereby each countryinvestigates the crime in their own country by using their own domestic powerswithout having to resort to letters of request. For example, consider a murderinvestigation JIT between England, Germany and France. If the investigator in Englanddecides that they need some banking evidence from France and a search to beconducted in Germany, they simply picks up the phone to their counterparts in thosecountries who have signed the JIT and they go and do it: no letters of requests, nounnecessary delays. The benefits for speedy investigations are immediately obvious toanyone who has had to deal with letters of requests. Decisions around prosecutioncan easily be made so that suspects can be indicted in the most suitable jurisdictionto ensure that court time is most effectively utilised and uses a single court processinstead of many.Operation VeerdeOperation Veerde was a JIT with the Czech Republic and Eurojust. It was aninvestigation into human trafficking, prostitution and rape of females brought to theUK by a criminal network. 33 victims were located in the Czech Republic. A JIT wasagreed so that the UK and Czech police could quickly gather evidence usingdomestic laws. Nine suspects were indicted in England on behalf of both states; allwere convicted of trafficking offences and sent to prison.Operation RomabankCurrent ongoing operation with Poland. 485 victims have been located in Poland and14