The British government admitted that over the past seven years, between February 1999 and March 2006, over 1,000 prisoners, which included murderers and rapists, were freed without facing deportation from the UK prisons. The government is thinking about sending the foreign prisoners back to their country but most of the prisoners are on the run. They were released from the prison but they carried on committing crime because of which the British government and the police are still trying to trace them.
At the present, still at least half of the most serious offenders are on the run. 32 prisoners are either deported, accounted for or are within Home Office control and also work has begun to consider whether 574 of the 1,023 criminals should be deported. Its action is being pursued in 446 cases. Charles Clarke the ex Home Secretary takes this all as "extraordinary". 
"we simply didn't make the proper arrangements for identifying and considering removal,"he said on Tuesday."That is a failure of the Home Office and its agencies for which I take responsibilities."
Another quote from Menzies Campbell leader of the Liberal Party , "All the government's tough talk on crime counts for nothing in the face of this  incompetence? What possible excuse can there be for this disgraceful state of affairs."