UK police and security services conducted more than 600m real-time checks on the Schengen Information System II (SIS II) in 2019, but the following year lost access to its instant data because of Brexit.
A civil servant said they hoped to get access to a planned new EU law enforcement alert platform "within two or three years, according to a 2021 House of Lords report".
But Matthew Rycroft, the Home Office's permanent secretary, has said that gaining access to EU datasets is at "a very early stage" and is not expected to be completed for another four years.
The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said the government had badly weakened the country's armoury in the fight against crossborder crime: "Ministers promised us that they would put new systems in place so we wouldn't lose vital security and intelligence information from other countries after they pulled out of SIS II.
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