Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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So what does that mean?
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We asked and were told they couldn't explain how they worked it out.
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The information was too sensitive to release.
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They say it could mean any criminal activity that takes place at a cash machine, including stealing car details or even distraction theft.
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This is not just in London, by the way.
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On to the final statistic.
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7% of all crime across the 28 EU member states was caused by 240 Romanian gangs.
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No, not true at all.
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OK, UKIP cites Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, but UKIP mangled the statistic.
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It's not that Romanian gangs commit 7% of all crime.
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It's that Europol counted up all the criminal networks they could find and they said that just under 7% of them were Romanian, or mostly Romanian.
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The Times newspaper, in contrast, got it right.
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Here's what they said.
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And remember again, this is just a headcount.
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We don't actually know whether the Romanian networks are big and influential or just quite numerous.
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I submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Association of Chief Police Officers, which hold national police records.
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But this won't surprise you, they couldn't give me the figures that I wanted.
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Why not?
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The data on European foreign nationals is pretty patchy, but there are two things I can tell you.
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First of all, out of EU foreign nationals, Romanians have been convicted of more offences than any other nationality, except polls.
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