Losing access to EU crime database is biggest challenge facing police, MPs told

(Steve Parsons/PA)

The biggest challenge facing law enforcement after Brexit is having to “plug the gap” left by losing access to a European criminal database, according to a former British diplomat.

Julian King, ex-European commissioner for the security union, told MPs that “data adequacy” for police was the “most significant, outstanding, unresolved issue” which had come out of the UK’s security agreement with the EU.