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DO YOU THINK IMMIGRATION IS TO BLAME FOR A RISE IN CRIME?

Wednesday June 4,2008


IMMIGRANTS are behind a surge in crime, one of the country’s top officers warned ­yesterday.


Cambridgeshire Chief Constable Julie Spence said three nationalities were causing the biggest problems for her beleaguered force.

Rises in assaults and knife crime were worst among Poles, Lithuanians and Iraqi Kurds, she told MPs. And the effect of mass migration under Labour had had an “immense” impact on police resources.

Mrs Spence, who has regularly warned about the impact of immigration, raised concerns that the three nationalities, who have recently arrived in Britain in large numbers, tend to carry knives.

ARE YOU SCARED OF WALKING THE STREETS?

DO YOU FEEL SAFE IN YOUR AREA?

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE SURGE IN KNIFE CRIME? HAVE YOUR SAY NOW!