MORE THAN 30,000 EUROPEANS A YEAR ARE ARRESTED IN LONDON

More than 80 EU nationals are arrested in London every day, the Mail can reveal.

The scale of crime linked to European nationals is exposed in official police figures which show nearly 100,000 arrests in three years.

Scotland Yard data, published after a Freedom of Information request, showed the Met has arrested more than 30,000 EU nationals in the capital in each of the past three years.

The figures sparked renewed calls for Britain to quit the EU to restore immigration and border controls.

The revelations come just days after Justice Secretary Michael Gove warned that staying in the EU would see huge pressure placed on Britain's jails.

He said there were already 10,000 foreign criminals in UK jails - with one in 20 from Albania, which wants to join the EU in the coming years.

Last night backbench Tory MP and Eurosceptic Philip Davies said: 'The Home Secretary says EU membership is vital as it has allowed the extradition of 5,000 criminals from the UK.

'That's dwarfed by the sheer number being arrested on our streets every year. Being outside the EU would allow us to be able to stop them coming in in the first place.'

Among the individuals represented by the figures are Latvian murderer Arnis Zalkalns. 

He was let into Britain despite serving seven years in jail in his country for killing his wife.

He moved to the UK in 2007 but police did not know about this conviction when he was questioned about a sexual assault on a girl in London.

He was not prosecuted and went on to murder schoolgirl Alice Gross in August 2014. He was later found hanged.

Figures from the Freedom of Information request reveal 30,561 non UK EU nationals were arrested in London in 2015.

There were 32,214 arrested in 2014 and 32,851 in 2013.

In 2013 a total of 13,087 - more than 1000 a month - were charged. In 2014 that figure was 12,266 and last year 11,285.

Home Secretary Theresa May last week urged Britons to vote to stay in the EU, warning that security and crime fighting would be made much difficult if we leave.

She pointed to the European Arrest Warrant saying it allowed 5,000 suspects to be sent overseas to face justice.

At the same time, she said, 675 convicted individuals or suspects had been brought to the UK.

Official figures suggest there are a record three million Europeans living in the UK.

But last week Migration Watch warned official immigration stats have underestimated the number of EU migrants who have come to Britain in the past five years by 250,000. 

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