Brexit could bring back bad old days of 'Costa del Crime', warns MEP

Camino Mortera-Martinez, a specialist on EU home affairs at the Centre for European Reform, said the UK risked going over a cliff edge on aspects of EU police co-operation, including the European arrest warrant, crime-fighting databases and membership of the EU police agency, Europol. It would be impossible to replicate the European arrest warrant outside the EU, Mortera-Martinez said, although she thought the UK could get an extradition treaty similar to that signed by the EU with Norway and Iceland, which took 13 years to negotiate and has “shortcomings”.