Put on Your Badges, Expats!
Crimefighters in Britain reached out to their countrymen in Spain in an effort to help apprehend some of the more hardened criminals thought to be hiding out there. The types of crimes include murder, rape and child abusers. Expats, put on your badges and walk a beat in Spain! (Links to an AP story via Yahoo! News.)
“The British crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers and the Serious Organised Crime Agency made the appeal at a press conference in the southern city of Malaga in which they added 10 new names to their existing list of 17 suspects believed to on the run in Spain.”
Of the initial list of 40, there have been 26 arrests. It’s amazing how the extension of communications and television content across nations has created such an opportunity. With over one million British citizens in Spain, it’s hardly a small market to tap into.
If nothing else, it also reminds us how the world continues to shrink. I’m sure that criminals used to hide out in another country, where a foreign language is spoken, and felt a lot more secure than they do now. Twenty-six out of forty? That’s unbelievable!
October 5th, 2009 at 11:31 am
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