While Lord West's review has found no systematic failings in our procedures for checking potential suspects, it has highlighted the importance of enhancing existing cooperation to share more information between police and immigration services and internationally across countries: - within the EU to enable British law enforcement authorities to access immigration information on existing EU databases; - bilaterally with
other member states to mutually exchange information; - and joining up
criminal records databases
throughout the EU so that our authorities can quickly identify individuals charged with crimes, no
matter where in Europe they are convicted.