Post-Brexit cooperation between the UK and the EU on law enforcement and criminal justice is sub-optimal, according to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee.

Under new system EU countries can now refuse to surrender their own nationals.

The Supreme Court wants the Court of Justice of the EU to decide important legal issues concerning whether there is any legal basis, post-Brexit, for the continuance of the European Arrest Warrant system for the surrender of people between Ireland and the UK.

"Today’s mafias are moving among countries and continents, and where they find weakness in international cooperation, they exploit that opportunity.”

France, Germany and Poland say they will refuse to allow extradition of their nationals.

Ten EU member states have said they will no longer extradite their nationals to the UK following Brexit, the Home Office has said.

France, Germany and Poland among countries who will not send their own nationals to Britain

A SCOT who has been imprisoned for a month in Barcelona after Brexit rendered him a “flight risk” is likely to face his 31st birthday still incarcerated – before his case comes to trial.

Key information systems will be lost even if a security deal is struck before 31 December, National Crime Agency says.

Thousands of names ‘double keyed’ into Interpol system – in case screens ‘switched off’ in just eight weeks’ time.

Government document reveals plans to ditch tool that allows for fast extradition of criminals.