britain's most senior police officer, cressida dick, has warned that a no—deal brexit could put the publicrisk. speaking to the bbc‘s today programme on radio 4, the metropolitan police commissioner said the force, which is the country's largest and has responsibility for the national counter—terrorism unit, has been making contingency plans. we work very closely with our european colleagues through a variety of legal instruments at the moment. if we came out without immediately obvious replacements for those instruments, that will undoubtedly mean we have to work incredibly hard on a bilateral basis of countries to try and get to a place some kind of way. are you doing that already? talking to colleagues. are you doing a no deal safety net unit reported in the guardian? we set up an eu coordination unit, absolutely, which is to help local forces understand how to work most effectively throughout europe at we exit the european union under whatever circumstances. we would hope that we will have about as much as possible the instruments we currently have or something very similar as quickly

britain's most senior police officer, cressida dick,

the metropolitan police commissioner, cressida dick, said the scenario would be very difficult in thebases and the extradition process. we work very closely with our european colleagues through a variety of instruments, legal instruments, at the moment. if we come out without a sort of immediately obvious replacement for those incidents, we will have to work incredibly hard on a bilateral basis with countries to try to get in place some kind of way of working together. you doing that already? we are already talking to colleagues. is it right that you have a no deal safety deal unit? we have set up an eu coordination unit, absolutely, which is to help local forces to understand how to work most effectively across europe after we exit the eu, under whatever circumstances. of course, we would hope that we will have as much as possible of the instruments we currently have, or something very similar, as quickly as possible, in order to be able to keep our public safe, and at the same sort of cost. so the consequences of not having those things is that we will be less safe ? those things is

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the metropolitan police commissioner, cressida dick, said the scenario would be very challenging in thep forces cope, post brexit. we've set up an eu coordination unit, absolutely, so that is to help local forces to understand how to work most effectively across europe after we exit the eu, under whatever circumstances. of course, we would hope that we will have as much as possible of the instruments we currently have, or something very similar, as quickly as possible, in order to be able to keep our public safe, and at the same sort of cost. so you are saying clearly that the consequences of not having those things is that we will be less safe? the consequences are that we will have to replace — and if there was a no deal scenario, that would be very difficult to do in the short—term. we will have to replace some of the things we currently use in terms of access to databases, the way in which we can quickly arrest and extradite people, these kinds of things. we will have to replace as effectively as we can. that will undoubtedly be more costly, slower and potentially, yes, put the publ

the metropolitan police commissioner, cressida dick, said the no—deal scenario would be very difficultnges were made to databases, and the extradition process. our home editor mark easton has the story. brexit means britain loses its seat in the boardroom at europol, and with it, unfettered access to shared intelligence databases, the european arrest warrant and eu extradition agreements. the national crime agency has expressed its concern at the security implications, and now, the country's most senior police officer has warned that were the uk to leave without a deal, the public safety could be comprised. we will have to replace some of the things we currently use in terms of access to databases and the way in which we can quickly arrest and extradite people, these kinds of things, we will have to replace as effectively as we can. that will be more costly, undoubtedly, slower, undoubtedly, and potentially, yes, put the public at risk. the government has long argued that mutual interest. is likely to mean collaboration on security after brexit is as good or better than now. the prime

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