article_snippet: The number of foreign criminals on Britain’s streets has risen by almost 20 per cent, despite repeated Government attempts to kick more of them out.
article_snippet: ’ Home Office data shows that the number of foreign national offenders who are currently still in Britain, having served the number of foreign national offenders who are currently still in Britain time in jail, stood at 4,903 at the end of last year.
article_snippet: In the last three months of 2014, 312 new foreign criminals who were eligible for deportation were ‘released into the community’.
article_snippet: ’ Home Office data shows that, overall, there were 570 foreign criminals fighting removal at the end of last yearlast year.
article_snippet: Of overall, there were 570 foreign criminals fighting removal at the end of last year,
article_snippet: 43 were claiming asylum, 201 were appealing against overall, there were 570 foreign criminals fighting removal at the end of last year deportation in courts and tribunals, and nine had children or family members living in the UK, meaning overall
article_snippet: , there were 570 foreign criminals fighting removal at the end of last year could not be removed.
article_snippet: Another six escaped being deported because of fears overall, there were 570 foreign criminals fighting removal at the end of last year
article_snippet: would suffer torture or persecution back in overall, there were 570 foreign criminals fighting removal at the end of last year homeland.
article_snippet: Five had medical conditions that kept overall, there were 570 foreign criminals fighting removal at the end of last year in the UK and –
article_snippet: More than 200 were being held up because the offenders did not have a passport and needed an emergency travel document from the offenders home country
article_snippet: A staggering 151 foreign criminals have been waiting for more than a year for such a document, while 294 offenders were involved in ‘failed removals’
article_snippet: – often because 294 offenders were involved in ‘failed removals refused to board planes or went on the run.
article_snippet: But 653 foreign criminals were sent home under controversial schemes that allow prisoners to leave before prisoners sentence finishes.
article_snippet: The average time to deport a foreign offender now stands at 152 days, according to the Home Office figures, up sharply from 111 days when the previous figures were published three months earlier.
article_snippet: Although thousands of criminals roam the streets, another 1,387 remain in immigration detention after serving thousands of criminals sentences – at an average cost of £96 a day.
article_snippet: Foreign criminals make up about one in eight – or 11,000 – of all those behind bars in England and Wales.
article_snippet: The Home Office said The Home Office was getting to grips with the problem and had removed almost 5,100 foreign national offenders in the past year.
highlights_snippet: The number of foreign criminals on Britain's streets has risen 20 per cent .
  