Judges get access to EU criminal records
By Tom Brady Security Editor, Independent.ie
Saturday January 03 2009
JUDGES imposing sentence on thugs in courts will now have easy access to their criminal records in other EU states.
Ireland is to sign up to a new criminal records database aimed at fighting crime across EU borders, the Irish Independent has learned.
It will also make it simpler to carry out background checks on overseas employees seeking work here in sensitive areas such as childcare.
The Government has given approval to Justice Minister Dermot Ahern to press ahead with plans to become part of the European criminal records information system (ECRIS), which is being established across member states and will ensure that electronic methods used in the transfer of information are standardised across Europe. The move will allow member states to exchange easy-to-use information through the different criminal legal systems and store it in national databases.
At present the courts are frequently left to pass sentence on convicted criminals without the knowledge of convictions elsewhere in the EU.
Mr Ahern told the Irish Independent: “This is a very important decision, underpinning the security of our citizens.
“Establishing a concrete and user-friendly system enables the efficient exchange of information on previous convictions of criminals and is a vital tool in combating trans-border criminals,” Mr Ahern added.
He said information about previous convictions would be circulated among judges, prosecutors and police authorities. “We need this, not only to provide adequate responses to crime but also to prevent new crimes being committed.” The Cabinet move followed a decision taken recently by Mr Ahern and his colleagues at the European justice and home affairs ministers council meeting.
Mr Ahern disclosed that an EU Commission study in 2006 highlighted the flaws in the existing mechanisms dealing with the exchange of information on criminal records and concluded that they were not reliable. “Leaving aside the need to inform judges of all previous convictions, it is also vital in terms of background checks in certain jobs,” he pointed out.
One of the aims was to ensure that a member state could comprehensively respond to a request for information on previous convictions and relay this through a computerised exchange system.
“New software will provide the relevant information in a form which is immediately understandable and overcome difficulties with different languages,” Mr Ahern added.
Mr Ahern must now table a motion in the Dail and the Seanad to secure their approval before the agreement is finally implemented.
- Tom Brady Security Editor
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