Civil servants must give us full facts on migrant crime

DESPITE a series of headline-grabbing stories in recent months, Britain has no official public figures on the number or types of crime migrants commit.

- Tim Newark

The Government claims such data is simply not kept.

By contrast, Denmark maintains detailed statistics and revealed last week that conviction rates for violent crimes among recent migrants are a staggering 40-times higher than for those born in the country.

This sort of important data gathering ensures the Danish government maintains stricter rules on migration.

If the statistics were similar for the UK, it would mean that not only are we importing economically under-performing people, as last week's bombshell Centre for Policy Studies report revealed, but we are also importing a potential crime wave.

Despite repeated requests for migrant crime-related government data, it has not been forthcoming.

Nigel Farage claimed earlier this week that every effort to obtain statistics from the Home Office had "hit a brick wall", despite mounting concern over a number of incidents involving asylum seekers and migrants.

ONE might speculate that left-leaning, promigration civil servants believe they know better than the rest of us and consider this data unimportant. But by not collecting let alone revealing - this information to the public, the Government is failing in one of its principal tasks, which is to protect its citizens.