British police would find it harder to protect citizens from militant attacks and organised crime following a departure from the European Union, the head of Europol said on Monday, countering a key claim of British eurosceptics.
"If you take that infrastructure that they [British police] have helped to design over the past forty years, it would make the United Kingdom's job harder to protect citizens from terror," Rob Wainwright, director of the EU body, said.
Senior British government Minister Iain Duncan Smith, who is campaigning for Britain to leave the 28 member bloc, said at the weekend that remaining in the European Union would increase the risk of Paris-style attacks in the EU.
