Clause 82 - Foreign surveillance operations
Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Ms Caroline Flint (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (reducing organised and international crime, anti drugs co-ordination and international and European issues), Home Office; Don Valley, Labour)
It is important to remember that cross-border surveillance has nothing to do with the European arrest warrant. Foreign officers carrying out cross-border surveillance will have no executive powers. They will not be able to make arrests, stop and question suspects, carry out searches or seize anything. I have not heard the term ''hot surveillance''. To me, surveillance means that someone is watching a person but not interacting with them—[Interruption.]