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The Home Secretary may not want to answer the question about what happens to our security if there is No Deal, but UK’s top police officers have clearly warned him & all of us that No Deal makes us less safe ... thread/1
“We should not play with security. We need to keep our communities safe across the whole of Europe; if we were not to get a deal, then we will not be as safe as we currently are” DAC Richard Martin, National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Brexit lead, 30 Oct ....2
“If we have no-deal Brexit, and we could not share that information, and if we lose access to those systems, it will inevitably make the UK and Europe less safe than it is today.” DAC Neil Basu, UK counter terror lead, 23 Jan
“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 extradite and arrest people … but it will be more costly, slower and potentially put [the] public at risk” Met Commissioner Cressida Dick 27 Dec
“As operational leader for serious & organised crime in the UK, it is my responsibility to say that if we cannot have access to these tools or an opportunity for a planning period... there is a risk that this country will be less safe” Lynne Owens, DG National Crime Agency 30 Oct
“If officials don’t have access to that database ...it is pretty obvious what detrimental effect that might have” Rob Wainwright, former head of Europol, evidence to @CommonsHomeAffs 
“criminality does not respect borders. It is a trans-global problem. If you can’t share intelligence & data & don’t have the mechanisms to arrest them quickly and transfer them to someone else’s custody, those things are a significant diminution of our security” DAC Neil Basu ..6
This is why @CommonsHomeAffs waned in our last report “it is clear that no deal would represent a risk to public safety & security... we are extremely concerned the Govt is either being complacent or failing to be transparent about the security implications”
